| Theodore D. Wachs | |
| Birth Date: | 6 February 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York[1] |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Psychology |
| Workplaces: | Purdue University |
| Education: | Muhlenberg College Peabody College |
| Thesis Title: | Free-recall learning in children as a function of directional motivation orientation, intelligence, and chronological age |
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| Thesis Year: | 1968 |
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| Awards: | Golestan Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Muhlenberg College Alumni Achievement Award in Psychology – Child Development (2017)[2] |
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Theodore D. Wachs (born February 6, 1941)[3] is an American psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University.[4] He has studied the effects of environmental factors, such as noise, on children's mental development.[5] [6] He has also conducted research in the field of behavioral genetics.[4] Wachs was one of the founders of the Global Child Development Group in 2007.[7]