Diana Baumrind
| Diana Baumrind | |
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Diana Blumberg Baumrind circa 1965
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| Born |
August 23, 1927 New York City, United States |
| Residence |
 USA
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| Nationality |
American
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| Fields | Developmental psychologist |
| Institutions |
Cowell Memorial Hospital University of California, Berkeley U. S. Public Health Service |
| Alma mater |
Hunter College University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Hubert Coffey |
| Known for | Parenting styles |
| Influences |
Theodor Adorno Else Frenkel-Brunswik Daniel J. Levinson Nevit Sanford Egon Brunswik David Krech Richard S. Crutchfield |
Diana Blumberg Baumrind (born August 23, 1927) is a clinical and developmental psychologist known for her research on parenting styles and for her critique of the use of deception in psychological research.
Baumrind was born into a Jewish community in New York City, the first of two daughters of Hyman and Mollie Blumberg. She completed her B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy at Hunter College in 1948, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled "Some personality and situational determinants of behavior in a discussion group".
After being awarded her doctorate she served as a staff psychologist at Cowell Memorial Hospital in Berkeley. She was also director of two U. S. Public Health Service projects and a consultant on a California state project. From 1958-1960 she also had a private practice in Berkeley.
She is a developmental psychologist at the Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her research on parenting styles and for her critique of deception in psychological research, especially Stanley Milgram's controversial experiment.
Her parenting styles were based on two aspects of parenting that are found to be extremely important. The first was "Parental responsiveness", which refers to the degree the parent responds to the child's needs. The second was "Parental demandingness" which is the extent to which the parent expects more mature and responsible behavior from a child. Using these two dimensions, she recognizes three different parenting styles:
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