Patricia Marks Greenfield

Patricia Marks Greenfield (born 1940) is an American psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for research on culture and human development. She studied at Radcliffe College and took her Harvard doctorate in 1966 under Jerome Bruner, with a dissertation comparing cognitive development in Senegal. Her best known fieldwork is more than thirty-five years of research in Chiapas, Mexico, where she studied how culture shapes the way people think and how cultural patterns change, and her book Weaving Generations Together won the 2005 R. L. Shep Award. She was president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology from 2014 to 2016 and has received the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for lifetime contribution to developmental psychology.