| Jacqueline V. Lerner | |
| Birth Name: | Jacqueline Rose Verdirame |
| Birth Place: | Flushing, New York |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Psychology |
| Workplaces: | Boston College |
| Education: | St. John's University Eastern Michigan University Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis Title: | The role of congruence between temperament and school demands in school children's academic performance, personal adjustment, and social relations |
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| Thesis Year: | 1980 |
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| Spouse: | Richard M. Lerner |
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| Children: | 3 |
Jacqueline V. Lerner (born 1954) is Professor of Applied Developmental & Educational Psychology in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, where she has taught since 1996. She is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development,[1] and Psi Chi.[2] With her husband and research collaborator Richard M. Lerner, she has been active in promoting the concept of positive youth development.[3]
Lerner was born Jacqueline Rose Verdirame in Flushing, New York, in 1954.[4] She is married to Richard M. Lerner, who is also a psychologist; they live in Wayland, Massachusetts. They have three children and four grandchildren.[5]