University of Maryland University of Pennsylvania University of Minnesota Yale University University of Virginia
Doctoral advisor
Irving Gottesman
Sandra Wood Scarr (August 8, 1936 – October 8, 2021)[1][2] was an American psychologist and writer. She was the first female full professor in psychology in the history of Yale University. She established core resources for the study of development, including the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study and the Minnesota Adolescent Adoption Study. She served as president of multiple societies including the Association for Psychological Science and was honored with multiple awards including the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award. She was also active in the development of commercial childcare. Her work with twins in the 1960s revealed strong genetic influences on intellectual development. One of her key findings was that this differed with race and socioeconomic status (SES), with poor and non-white children showing less genetic influence on their IQ and more environmental influence.[citation needed] She demonstrated a successful intervention in premature infants, showing that stimulation improved their health and developmental outcomes.[citation needed]
At Minnesota, she and Richard A. Weinberg found that black and interracial children adopted early into white homes initially had outcomes more similar to the white average, suggesting a role of family environment early in life. By their teens, adoptees with two black birth parents achieved lower scores than did adoptees with one or no black birth parents, suggesting a genetic component to race differences in IQ.[3][4][5][6]
Along with the Scarr-Rowe effect of socio-economic status on the heritability of intelligence, another key intellectual landmark established by Scarr was that "Rather than the home environment having a cumulative impact across development, its influence wanes from early childhood to adolescence."[7] She sought also to advance scientific psychology, and in 1991 co-founded Current Directions In Psychological Science.[7] She retired to Hawaii.
^Jensen, Arthur Robert (1998-01-01). The g factor : the science of mental ability. Praeger. ISBN 978-0275961039. OCLC 832958770.
^Weinberg, Richard A.; Scarr, Sandra; Waldman, Irwin D. (1992-01-01). "The Minnesota transracial adoption study: A follow-up of IQ test performance at adolescence". Intelligence. 16 (1): 117–135. doi:10.1016/0160-2896(92)90028-P.
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Eleanor Phelps, Class of 1924, actress Julia Randall, Class of 1941, poet SandraScarr, psychologist and writer Rosabelle Sinclair, who established the first...
of Western Ontario Vincent Sarich, University of Auckland New Zealand SandraScarr, University of Virginia Frank L. Schmidt, University of Iowa Lyle F....
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