1. William Damon was born on 1944 and is an American psychologist who is a retired professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
17 Facts About William Damon
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William Damon is one of the world's leading scholars of human development.
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William Damon writes on intellectual and social development through the lifespan and has contributed to applied fields such as entrepreneurship education and philanthropic strategy.
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William Damon has been elected to the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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William Damon grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts and attended public schools there.
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William Damon moved in with his mother's uncle Louis, who helped raise him and sent him to college.
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William Damon then joined the psychology faculty at Clark University as an assistant professor.
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William Damon is the author of 20 books and numerous book chapters and articles on psychology and human development.
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William Damon's work has been influential for research and theory in academic developmental psychology.
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William Damon emphasized that thinking and behavior develop in dynamic relationship with family, peers, teachers, and the larger social world.
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In 1995, William Damon gained an even larger popular audience with his book, Greater Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in Our Homes and Schools, which won the Parents' Choice Award for books and was the subject of wide media coverage.
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The book received criticism from some educators who believed that children need more attention and creative freedom to grow rather than, as William Damon wrote, the encouragement to take on hard challenges and to develop internal discipline and good habits.
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William Damon wrote about journalism in the book Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet and about business success in The Moral Advantage.
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William Damon presented his framework for good work in philanthropy in Taking Philanthropy Seriously: Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving.
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In 2021, William Damon published A Round of Golf with my Father: The New Psychology of Exploring your Past to Make Peace with your Present.
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William Damon is married with three children, Jesse, Maria, and Caroline.
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William Damon has a granddaughter Sarah, as well as a grandson Isak.