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Judith Torney-Purta (born October 3, 1937) is known for being a psychologist and a professor at the University of Maryland for writing and focusing on social policy and human development. To this day, she is currently retired.Throughout her career she has won many awards including the Distinguished International Service Landmark Award in 2005 and in 2019 was given the Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences.

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Torney-Purta was born in 1937, in California where she first studied at Stanford University, where she would earn a B.A. in Psychology. After earning her B.A. ,she enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1959 to earn her Masters Degree of Arts in Human Development. Finally in 1965, Torney-Purta graduated with a PhD in Human Development at University of Chicago. Later on she would work as a professor of human development at the University of Maryland.

In 1975, she conducted a a study called the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, where she

She was a task force member at the youth development Carnegie Corporation, Stanford California.

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Torney-Purta mainly focused on Human development which linked to how society and politics affected people. Specifically, her work focused on cognitive psychology of young adolescents and how they would react to and respond to global issues like human rights violations.

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In 1975, she conducted a a study called the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, where she sought to find a correlation of a students beliefs and political affiliation.

Representative publications

 * Barber, C., Fennelly, K., & Torney-Purta, J. (2013). Nationalism and support for immigrants' rights among adolescents in 25 countries. Applied Developmental Science, 17(2), 60-75.
 * Barber, C., Torney-Purta, J., Wilkenfeld, B., & Ross, J. (2015). Immigrant and native-born adolescents’ civic knowledge and attitudes in Sweden and the United States: Emergent citizenship within developmental niches. Research in Comparative and International Education, 10(1), 23-47.
 * Torney-Purta, J. (2002). The school's role in developing civic engagement: A study of adolescents in twenty-eight countries. Applied developmental science, 6(4), 203-212.
 * Torney-Purta, J., Barber, C., & Wilkenfeld, B. (2006). Differences in the civic knowledge and attitudes of adolescents in the United States by immigrant status and Hispanic background. Prospects, 36(3), 343-354.
 * Torney-Purta, J., Barber, C. H., & Wilkenfeld, B. (2007). Latino adolescents’ civic development in the United States: Research results from the IEA Civic Education Study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36(2), 111-125.