Jay S. Rosenblatt
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| Born | Jay Seth Rosenblatt November 18, 1923 East Bronx, New York City New York, United States |
| Died | February 16, 2014 (aged 90) New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Psychology, animal behavior |
| Institutions | Rutgers University-Newark |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Doctoral advisor | Lester Aronson, T. C. Schneirla |
| Known for | Animal behavior, maternal behavior, reproductive behavior, clinical psychology and psychoanalysis |
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Jay Seth Rosenblatt (November 18, 1923 – February 16, 2014) was emeritus professor of psychology at Rutgers University-Newark. At the time of his retirement in 2005, he was the Daniel S. Lehrman Professor of Psychobiology. He was a, painter, and psychotherapist, and most notably a scientist. His scientific research largely established the study of neonate learning and especially mother-offsping behavior throughout the maternal cycle. For the latter work, he was known in developmental psychobiology as the "father of mothering". He received several honors and awards during his career including election to American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Rosenblatt was born in the East Bronx, which is part of New York City, New York, the youngest of three children. His mother, a housewife, immigrated from Russia to flee from the pogroms of the early 20th century; his father, a furrier, arrived from Austria as a teenager.
In high school, the Works Progress Administration allowed him to study art and especially painting. During World War II he was a camouflage artist and he continued to paint the rest of his life. He married Gilda Rosenblatt (née Rosen) who died in 1999. He then married Pat Rosenblatt. He had two children Daniel and Nina.
In 1946, after the army, Rosenblatt entered New York University. There he met T. C. Schneirla who influenced the direction his scientific interests and research would take. Schneirla convinced Rosenblatt that the study of animal behavior would broaden his understanding of human behavior and that it was interesting in itself. He began his research on the role of hormones and experience on the sexual behavior of male cats. Supported by Schneirla, he began his doctoral work in 1958 at the American Museum of Natural History study of early learning in kittens. He discovered that kittens could orient to home by 3 to 4 days of age and that they formed nipple attachment preferences by 1 to 2 days of age. This was contrary to learning paradigms of that time, which assumed that animals could not learn at very young ages. In the 1950s, while an assistant professor at the City College of New York, he became a person of interest for the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was conveyed to the City College of New York. Subsequently, his contract was not renewed he went to Rutgers University at Newark where he joined the Institute of Animal Behavior the Institute of Animal Behavior founded by Daniel S. Lehrman who he had been friends with during graduate school.
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