Sandra Wood Scarr was an American psychologist and writer.
21 Facts About Sandra Scarr
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Sandra Scarr was the first female full professor in psychology in the history of Yale University.
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Sandra Scarr established core resources for the study of development, including the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study and the Minnesota Adolescent Adoption Study.
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Sandra Scarr served as president of multiple societies including the Association for Psychological Science and was honored with multiple awards including the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award.
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Sandra Scarr was active in the development of commercial childcare.
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Sandra Scarr demonstrated a successful intervention in premature infants, showing that stimulation improved their health and developmental outcomes.
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Sandra Scarr was the child of school teacher Jane Powell Wood and John Ruxton Wood, a US Army physician, who in 1942 was appointed director of Army Research Laboratories at Edgewood Arsenal and who in 1950 headed the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
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Sandra Scarr spent most of her childhood in the Chesapeake Bay area and went to the Bryn Mawr School for Girls and the National Cathedral School.
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Sandra Scarr was the first woman full professor in psychology in the history of Yale University.
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Sandra Scarr collaborated with Margaret Williams on a clinical study which demonstrated that premature birth infants who receive stimulation gain weight faster and recover faster than babies left in isolation.
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Sandra Scarr was honored by her colleagues with research awards: Distinguished Contributions to Research on Public Policy, James McKeen Cattell Award, and the Dobzhansky Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Sandra Scarr was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other scientific societies.
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Sandra Scarr served as president of the Society for Research in Child Development, the Association for Psychological Science, the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, and the Behavior Genetics Association.
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Sandra Scarr was elected to the American Psychological Association's Board of Directors in 1988, but resigned in 1990.
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Sandra Scarr was a founding member of the American Psychological Society and was chief executive officer of KinderCare Learning Centers from 1995 to 1997.
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In 1990, Sandra Scarr was invited to join the Board of the KinderCare Learning Centers, the nation's largest child care company.
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Sandra Scarr wrote a mixed review of The Bell Curve, agreeing with the general presentation of the data, disagreeing about some specific issues of interpretation, and disapproving of the book's policy recommendations.
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Sandra Scarr disapproved of Hans Eysenck's book Race, Intelligence and Education, which she described as "generally inflammatory" and insulting to "almost everyone except WASPs and Jews".
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In 1991, together with Claire Ernhart, Scarr was involved as an expert witness on behalf of the lead industry in the lawsuit United States v Sharon Steel Corp.
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Sandra Scarr received money from the lead industry for consulting services which creates a conflict of interest.
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Sandra Scarr retired to Hawaii in 1997, where she learned scuba diving, even obtaining a rescue diver certification.