Peter Gray (psychologist)
- Peter Gray (psychologist)
American psychologist Peter Gray is currently a research professor at Boston College. He is the author of a widely-used introductory psychology textbook, "Psychology", currently in its fifth edition.
Gray graduated from Cabot High School in Cabot, Vermont, where he was valedictorian. He majored in psychology at Columbia College in New York City and graduated "summa cum laude" and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1972 Gray received his Ph.D. in biological sciences from Rockefeller University, where he worked under Neal Miller and studied psychology, animal behavior, physiology, and neurobiology.
From 1970 to 1971 Gray was an adjunct lecturer in psychology at the City College of New York. In 1972 he was a guest investigator in physiological psychology at Rockefeller University and the same year joined the psychology department at Boston College.
He is the sole author of a major introductory textbook, Peter Grays Psychology [http://www.worthpublishers.com/gray/]
Gray's research interests include play (especially age-mixed play), educational psychology, evolutionary psychology, and developmental psychology
He is currently writing a blog, titled Freedom to Learn [http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn] .
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