Kail, Robert V.

PERSONAL: Born in Indianapolis, IN. Education: Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A., 1971; University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1975.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Psychology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Educator, author, and editor. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, assistant professor of psychology, 1975–79; Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, associate professor, then professor of psychological sciences, 1979–99, 2000–; University of Maryland at College Park, professor of psychology, 1999–2000. Editor, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001–, and Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 2002–.

AWARDS, HONORS: Named Sesquicentennial Distinguished Alumnus in Psychology, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1992.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with John W. Hagen) Perspectives on the Development of Memory and Cognition, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Hillsdale, NJ), 1977.

The Development of Memory in Children, W.H. Freeman (New York, NY), 1979, 3rd edition, 1990.

(Editor, with Jeffrey Bisanz and Gay L. Bisanz; and contributor) Learning in Children: Progress in Cognitive Development Research, Springer-Verlag (New York, NY), 1983.

(Editor, with Norman E. Spear) Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Memory, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Hillsdale, NJ), 1984.

(With James W. Pellegrino) Human Intelligence: Perspectives and Prospects, W.H. Freeman (New York, NY), 1985.

(With Robert M. Liebert and Rita Wicks-Nelson) Developmental Psychology, 4th edition, PrenticeHall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1986, 5th edition (with Wicks-Nelson), 1993.

(Editor, with Jeffrey Bisanz and Charles J. Brainerd) Formal Methods in Developmental Psychology: Progress in Cognitive Development Research, Springer-Verlag (New York, NY), 1987.

(With John C. Cavanaugh) Human Development, Brooks/Cole Publishing (Pacific Grove, CA), 1996, 2nd edition published as Human Development: A Lifespan View, Wadsworth Thomson Learning (Belmont, CA), 2000, 3rd edition, 2004.

Children and Their Development, Prentice-Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 1998, 3rd edition, 2004.

Children, Prentice-Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 2002.

Author of pamphlets, including (with Laurence B. Leonard) "Word-Finding Abilities in Language-Impaired Children," American Speech-Language Hearing Association (Rockville, MD), 1986.