Fredda Blanchard-Fields | |
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| Born | September 19, 1948 |
| Died | August 3, 2010 (aged 61) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Wayne State University |
| Awards | Distinguished Mentor Award of the American Psychological Association |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive aging |
| Institutions | Louisiana State University, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Fredda Blanchard-Fields was a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Psychology. As director of the "School of Psychology’s Adult Development Laboratory", Blanchard-Fields led research efforts that address social-cognitive processes in everyday life, from adolescence to older adulthood. Recognizing that a great deal of psychological research has focused on ways in which cognitive abilities in adulthood decline with older age, Blanchard-Fields, as a gerontologist, and her colleagues focused on investigating domains in which adults continue to grow and develop throughout the lifespan and contribute to their competence in the social realm.[1][2][3]
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