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Grazyna Kochanska (born YEAR in Warsaw, Poland) is a social developmental psychologist and Stuit Professor of Developmental Psychology employed by The University of Iowa. Kochanska's interests in social psychology research include processes of socialization, social development, development of the conscious, parent-child interactions, child temperament and its role in social development, and developmental psychopathology. Kochanska's scientific merit, developmental psychology comparisons to society and real life issues, and hard work in exploring new theoretical ideas of developmental psychology granted her to obtain the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology put in store by Division 7 of the American Psychological Association. Konchanska's progressive goal to promote children's positive, adaptive pathways of socioemotional development, and to prevent maladaptive pathways was expressed through her team's research. Additionally, Kochanska is the lab director of the Konanska Lab at The University of Iowa in Social and Developmental Psychology studies. Two main studies in the Kochanska Lab are composed of the Family Study and the Play Study. Konchanska's studies are reflective in her discussion of research for the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology. Konchanska can be found on her University of Iowa faculty page: https://psychology.uiowa.edu/people/grazyna-kochanska.

Biography
Kochanska received her Ph.D., from the University of Warsaw in Poland. From 1981 to 1991 she did some post doctoral work in the University of Massachusetts, Princeton and other institutions. In 1991, she opened up her laboratory in the University of Iowa and currently works as a stuit professor as well. The research done in her CHILD LAB is used to expand on knowledge about child development and their contributions to future behavior. Her discoveries in developmental psychology presented her with the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology. Several of her studies have been published in child psychology books for example in Child Development volume 62 issue 6. Her findings have brought upon or reinforced techniques in parenting. They have also provided explanations for certain behavioral outcomes and insight on how the first two years of life may be crucial for future adaptive behaviors. Konchanska states that pre-school children who develop a close and mutually positive bond with their mother during the first two years of life have a more respectful relationship. Some of her interests outside of research include reading, biking and politics.

Research
Psychologist Professor Kochanska's research focuses on social psychology and several aspects of child psychology. Components studied in her child psychology research include socialization, consciousness, and parent-child interactions. Her feats in developmental psychology have previuosly been recognized by the American Psychological Association.

Kochanska has done extensive research in child psychology and development. One of her studies focused on the development of guilt in children and the implications on how it may affect them as adults. In the study, she concluded that children as young as two years old experience a sense of guilt. In her experiment the children reacted in several different ways to the guilt they experienced. Furthermore, she expresses her insight on how this is an emergence of the morality that eventually becomes a crucial component for all persons future adult behavior.

In another study Kochanska and her colleagues researched the effects of an ardent mother-child relationship. The conclusion, to this study showed that close relationships between mother and child created during the first two years of life resulted in children that were more compliant and cooperative. These findings provide support to specific parenting strategies of nurturing and support, as oppsed to more assertive strategies that can be counterproductive. In one of her more psychophysiological grounded studies, she studied how low skin conductance levels as children can result in more antisocial behavior. Children who have low skin conductance levels may experience less guilt and therefore are prone to more mischevious acts, which in turn may effect a parents parenting by causing them to become more aggressive. As a result antisocial behavior may result from a shift in this parenting attitude. These cause and effect relationships come as a result of a childs physiology, but in turn affect the psychology of both the child and parents.

Representative Publications

 * Kochanska, G., & Aksan, N. (2006, September 12). Children's Conscience and Self‐Regulation. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2006.00421.x
 * Kochanska, G., Koenig, J. L., Barry, R. A., Kim, S., & Yoon, J. E. (2010, September). Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495080/
 * Kochanska, G., & Kim, S. (2012, September 24). Early Attachment Organization With Both Parents and Future Behavior Problems: From Infancy to Middle Childhood. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01852.x
 * Kochanska, G., Murray, K., Jacques, T., Koenig, A., & Vandegeest, K. (1996). Inhibitory Control in Young Children and Its Role in Emerging Internalization. Child Development, 67(2), 490-507. doi:10.2307/1131828