June Price Tangney, PhD

June Price Tangney, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Since receiving her doctorate in clinical psychology from UCLA in 1985, she has conducted research on the development and implications of shame and guilt. More recently, her work has focused on the links between shame and constructive versus destructive responses to anger. Her research has been fidned by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and her...See more

June Price Tangney, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Since receiving her doctorate in clinical psychology from UCLA in 1985, she has conducted research on the development and implications of shame and guilt. More recently, her work has focused on the links between shame and constructive versus destructive responses to anger. Her research has been fidned by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and her papers have appeared in numerous professional journals. Kurt W. Fischer, PhD, is Professor of Education in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at Harvard University, where he is leading an initiative to focus on diversity in development and its implications for education. Coeditor (with Geraldine Dawson) of Human Behavior and the Developing Brain , he previously served as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, where he organized a group on Dynamic Modeling of Growth and Development. See less