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Lawrence V. Harper
Chairman of Human and Community Development
Human and Community Development
1329 Hart Hall
Office 752-3624
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lharper@ucdavis.edu
 
Evolutionary and biological bases of behavioral development; parent-offspring relationships, social behavior and the development of sex differences in mammals; human ethology.

Degrees:
1966 - PhD - University of California, Berkeley - Psychology
1957 - BA - University of California, Berkeley - Sociology

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Animal Behavior

Publications:
Harper LV. 1989. The nurture of human behavior. . Ablex Publishing, Norwood, NJ:

Harper LV. 1991. Behavioral Development: Birth to Adolescence. In: Encyclopedia to Human Biology. Academic Press, New York:573-583

Kraft RH, LV Harper, and LD Nickel. 1995. Stability and ear advantage for dichotically presented environmental sound stimuli: Development during early childhood. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 80:611-624

Research Interests:
Activity choices, social involvement with peers, and teacher behavior as a function of type and severity of mainstreamed preschoolers' disabilities.