Patricia Greenfield

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Patricia Greenfield, a professor in the psychology department, has served on the UCLA faculty since 1974. She completed undergraduate work in social relations at Radcliffe College and earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. She has taught at Clark University, Stanford University and University of California, Santa Cruz.

Greenfield’s challenging methods have won a broad range of admirers. Her students are impressed with her personal commentary and exacting recommendations. Doctoral candidates and faculty colleagues praise both her involvement in the psychology department’s teaching program and her ability to design laboratory facilities for use in classroom observations of child development.

An elected fellow to both the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Greenfield has published articles in numerous professional psychology journals. Since 1978, she has been a consultant and collaborating scientists with Emory University’s Yerkes Regional Primate Center, and she takes a special interest in that institution’s Chimpanzee Language Project.