
Laurence Steinberg
Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University; Author, You and Your Adult Child: How to Grow Together in Challenging Times
Laurence Steinberg is the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University. An expert on adolescence, his research has focused on adolescent brain development, risk-taking and decision-making, parent-adolescent relationships, and juvenile justice. Steinberg previously taught previously at Cornell University, the University of California, Irvine, and University of Wisconsin, Madison. The author of 500 articles and essays on teenage development, his books include You and Your Adolescent; The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting; and most recently, You and Your Adult Child. He has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Steinberg is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and former president of the APA’s Division of Developmental Psychology.
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