The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture 14th Edition by Kim G. Dolgin, ISBN-13: 978-0134415291

Kim G. Dolgin received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. She majored in biology and physical anthropology as an undergrad, completed a masters in evolutionary biology, and then went on for a Ph.D. in psychology there. Her first full-time academic position was as an assistant professor at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, and it was there that she initially became interested in adolescent psychology. Later, she moved to Ohio Wesleyan University, where she continued to teach Adolescent Psychology, and also taught Child Psychology and Human Sexuality. She ended her teaching career at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, lecturing in both the College of Education and in the College of Science’s psychology departments. Her research has spanned diverse topics: from comparative cognition to parent-child, sibling, and friendship relationships, to music perception, to the development of higher-order reasoning capabilities, to cyber-bullying. She is the recipient of three university-wide teaching awards. Now semi-retired, Kim is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys bird watching, traveling, and participating in community service projects.