XIVth EARA conference
The 14th EARA Conference will take place in Çeşme/Izmir, Turkey (www.eara2014.org). Click here for more information.
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In memoriam: Margaret Kerr
We mourn Dr. Margaret Kerr, Professor of Psychology at Orebrö University, Sweden. Margaret Kerr was one of the leading scholars of our Association. Her contributions have been of immense value. We all know her seminal work on parental monitoring, knowledge and adolescent disclosure, and we all have enjoyed her vibrant presentations or co-presentations with Håkan at many many occasions. Margaret was especially strong in conceptual issues and in pointing at the importance of clear and concise operationalizations. Her last published paper, Kerr, Stattin, & Özdemir (2012), Perceived parenting style and adolescent adjustment: Revisiting directions of effects and the role of parental knowledge. Developmental Psychology, 48, 1540-1554, is once again a clear demonstration of this. Margaret has been very important in creating good and friendly relationships with SRA, our sister organization in the US, and her workshops on scientific writing have impacted many of our young scholars.
Margaret’s contributions to EARA will be dearly missed. We salute her as an excellent scholar and a friendly and modest colleague. We offer our condolences to our friend and colleague Håkan, to Margaret’s and Håkan’s children and to her colleagues at Orebrö University. Read more…
In memoriam: Margaret Kerr
Margaret Kerr, Professor of Psychology at Örebro University, Sweden, died Monday November 19th after a long struggle with cancer. An adopted Swede, Margaret was originally from Saegertown, Pennsylvania. She attended Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, earning bachelor’s degrees with honors in both psychology and business. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell University where she was supervised by Daryl Bem and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship with Richard Tremblay at the University of Montréal, Canada. Margaret had worked at Örebro University for over a decade, establishing and co-directing the Center for Developmental Research with her husband, Håkan Stattin. She was also a co-founder of the research unit, Youth & Society, developed to study political and civic development of adolescents and young adults. During her tenure at Örebro University, she served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Research on Adolescence and the Swedish editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Read more…
EARA newsletter
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New SECNet website
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Report on EARA-SRA 2012 summer school
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Student discount for SRA membership
EARA student members receive a student discount for SRA membership. The discount is 20% off of the Student Journal price. Ask the EARA treasurer, Dr. Bill Burk (W dot Burk at psych dot ru dot nl) for the promotion code. Current EARA student members will enter this code when joining/renewing their SRA membership online at www.s-r-a.org.