Fredda Blanchard Fields

Fredda BlanchardFields was a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technologys School of Psychology. As director of the School of Psychologys Adult Development Laboratory, BlanchardFields led research efforts that address socialcognitive processes in everyday life, from adolescence to older adulthood. Recognizing that a great deal of psychological research has focused on ways in which cognitive abilities in adulthood decline with older age, BlanchardFields, as a gerontologist, and her colleagues focused on investigating domains in which adults continue to grow and develop throughout the lifespan and contribute to their competence in the social realm.

Fredda BlanchardFields was born September 19, 1948 in Santa Monica, California. BlanchardFields grew up in California for most of her life where she attended San Diego State University and received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D in Developmental Psychology at Wayne State University in 1983. Following her doctoral work at Wayne University, she joined the faculty at Louisiana State University, where she taught foryears before joining the Georgia Tech in 1993.

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