Charles M. Super
American academic
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Super's research interests focus on cultural regulation of human development, particularly biological, cognitive, and emotional development during infancy and childhood; parental and professional ethnotheories of childhood development and behavior; interventions to promote the physical and mental health of children and families; and research methods appropriate for comparative and culturally based research.
He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and State of Connecticut Children's Trust Fund. Super and his wife Sara Harkness were presented with the first Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cultural and Contextual Factors in Child Development from the Society for Research in Child Development.
Super was a staff member for the 1970 White House Conference on Children.
He went to Yale University for his BA (Psychology, 1966) and Harvard University for his PhD (Developmental Psychology, 1972).
Books
Super is the author or coauthor of:
- Parents' Cultural Belief Systems: Their Origins, Expressions, and Consequences. Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super, eds. New York: The Guilford Press, 1996.
- Opportunities in Psychology Careers by Charles M. Super, Donald E. Super Ph.D., Blythe Camenson, and Joanne E. Callan Ph.D. (3rd, revised, 2008: ISBN 0071545301) (2001: ISBN 0658010530)
- The Role of Culture in Developmental Disorder by Charles M. Super (1987).
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Recognition
Super is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science (formerly the American Psychological Society), and the American Anthropological Association.