Zella Luria's work helped to shift the field towards a cognitive approach that emphasized the social construction of gender and the active role of children in such construction.
17 Facts About Zella Luria
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Zella Luria Hurwitz was born on February 18,1924, in New York City, to Hyman and Dora Hurwitz.
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Zella Luria's mother was a factory seamstress who did not read English, and her father was a house painter and a member in a union.
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Zella Luria entered university at age 16 and received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College in 1944.
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Zella Luria became a postdoctoral fellow and worked as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, where she studied with Hobart Mowrer, Charles E Osgood, and J McVicker Hunt.
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Osgood and Zella Luria were the first to use the semantic differential measurement technique in clinical personality research, comparing the semantic structures used by Eves' three personalities.
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Salva Luria accepted a position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, and Zella Luria joined Tufts University as an assistant professor of psychology.
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Zella Luria reported differences in how parents viewed their children, based on their identified gender, as early as the first twenty-four hours after birth.
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Zella Luria reported that girls were focusing on and critiquing themselves and others in terms of appearance, prettiness and ugliness as early as the fourth or fifth grade.
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Zella Luria studied the changing attitudes of Jackson College students in the late 1960s and early 1970s on education, work, marriage, and motherhood.
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Zella Luria was an active feminist and critic of social inequity, She worked to improve gender balance on the Tufts faculty, and advocated for equal pay and provisions for maternity leave and day care.
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Zella Luria was a founding member of the Women's Studies program and a supporter of the Women's Center on campus.
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Zella Luria opposed the Vietnam War and voted to ban the ROTC from the Tuft's campus in 1969.
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Zella Luria worked with Physicians for Human Rights and the Center for Constitutional Rights, clinically assessing asylum seekers.
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Zella Luria was a member of the American Psychological Association for more than 60 years and an elected Fellow in the APA's Division 35, the Society for the Psychology of Women.
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Zella Luria was a charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society, which was founded in 1988.
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Zella Luria was awarded the Jackson College Teaching Award by Tufts University in 1969, and the Seymour Simches Award on Teaching and Advising in 1995.