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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Educational Testing Service and Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, USA

    J. Brooks-Gunn Ph.D. (Senior Research Scientist)

  2. Department of Individual and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

    J. Brooks-Gunn Ph.D. (Senior Research Scientist) & Anne C. Petersen Ph.D. (Professor of Human Development and Head)

  3. University of Chicago, USA

    Anne C. Petersen Ph.D. (Professor of Human Development and Head)

  4. Institute of Human Development, University of California at Berkeley, USA

    Dorothy Eichorn Ph.D. (Associate Director)

  5. Northwestern University, USA

    Dorothy Eichorn Ph.D. (Associate Director)

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Research Interests: Girls' psychological adaptation to pubertal change, biosocial aspects of female reproductive events, development in at risk children and adolescents.

Research Interests: Adolescent development, self-identity, sex-role development.

Research Interests: Biological Behavioral Relationships, Cognitive Development, and Life-Span research.

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Brooks-Gunn, J., Petersen, A.C. & Eichorn, D. The study of maturational timing effects in adolescence. J Youth Adolescence 14, 149–161 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02090316

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