Sharon Nelson-Le Gall
Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology
Senior Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
Research Interests
My general area of interest is social-cognitive and personality development in the preschool through pre-adolescent years.Specific interests concern: Development of notions of personal and social causality; help-seeking and achievement motivation in normal and atypical populations of children; peer relations in middle childhood and early adolescence; socialization of social and intellectual competence; social/contextual influences on adult-child and peer instructional interactions; cultural contributions to the developmental resiliency of Black children and racial minority groups who grow up experiencing social inequalities in the United States.
Jones, E. F., & Nelson-Le Gall, S. (2009). Black children's judgments of in-group and out-group students' academic achievement, motivation, and behavior. The Negro Educational Review, 60, 53-69.
Nelson-Le Gall, S. (2006). Peer acceptance and black children's help seeking in school. The Negro Educational Review, 57(1), 5-13.
Quintana, S., Aboud, F., Chao, R., Contreras-Grau, J., Cross, W., Hudley, C., Hughes, D., Liben, L., Nelson-Le Gall, S., & Vietze, D. (2006).Race, ethnicity, and culture in child development: Contemporary research and future directions. Child Development: Special issue on race, ethnicity, and culture in child development, 77(5), 1129-1141.
AERA sponsored participation in the 1996 Institute on Statistical Analysis for Educational Policy
1996
W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Visiting Lecturer
1994
Graduate College and University Center, City University of New York
Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Society) elected to membership
1993
NIMH Family Research Consortium, Summer Post-doctoral Fellow
1986
Rockefeller Foundation, Post-doctoral Research Fellow
1985-1986
Outstanding Young Women of America
1984
Foundation for Child Development, Young Scholar in Social and Affective Development
1982
National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Pre-doctoral Fellow
1977-1978
Ford National Fellowships Fund Fellowship, Pre-doctoral Fellow
1973-1977