| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Judith Dunn | |
| Birth Name: | Judith Frances Pace |
| Nationality: | British |
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| Children: | Three |
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Judith Frances Dunn, (born 1939) is a British psychologist and academic, who specialises in social developmental psychology.
Dunn was the daughter of James Pace and Jean Stewart. She studied at New Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1962; as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1968. While a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, she undertook postgraduate research and she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1982.
From 1978 to 1986, Dunn was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and a Medical Research Council Senior Scientific Officer. From 1986 to 1995, she was Professor of Human Development at Pennsylvania State University. In 1994, she was made an Evan Pugh Professor;[1] an Evan Pugh Professorship is the "highest honor the institution can give to a member of its faculty".[2] From 1995 to 2012, she was Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.[3]
Dunn specializes in children's social emotional and sociocognitive development, parent-child, sibling and peer relationships, and the development of language and communication abilities.[4] [5]
Dunn is Chair of The Children's Society's Good Childhood Inquiry, established in 2006, which explores and measures children’s subjective well-being.[6] [7]
In 1961, the then Judith Pace married Martin Gardiner Bernal, a British scholar of modern Chinese political history who also wrote the controversial Black Athena;[8] Together, they had one daughter and twin sons. They later divorced. From 1973 to 1987, she was married to John Montfort Dunn, a British political theorist, before they too divorced. In 1987, she married the American psychologist Robert Plomin.
In 1996, Dunn was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for humanities and social sciences.[9] In 2000, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[10]