Carolyn Zahn-Waxler

Carolyn Zahn-Waxler is an American developmental psychologist known for studying morality over the life span, social emotions, and empathy in childhood. She holds the position of Honorary Fellow at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Zahn-Waxler won the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Child Development Award from Society for Research in Child Development in 2021. In 2015, she was awarded the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association (APA). Zahn-Waxler and her colleagues received the APA George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article in General Psychology for their article "The developmental origins of a disposition toward empathy: Genetic and environmental contributions" in 2011.

Zahn-Waxler was President of APA Division 7, Developmental Psychology from 1997 to 1998. She served as Associate Editor, then Editor-in-chief of the journal Developmental Psychology in the 1990s. She gave a TEDx talk for TEDxGoldenGate on June 11, 2011. Provided by Wikipedia