Jacquelynne Sue Eccles (born 1944) is an American

educational psychologist An educational psychologist is a psychologist whose differentiating functions may include diagnostic and psycho-educational assessment, psychological counseling in educational communities ( students, teachers, parents, and academic authorit ...

. She is the Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine and formerly the McKeachie/Pintrich Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan.

Career

Eccles holds a Ph.D. from

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. Her work has focused on topics related to social development, student motivation, and

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in education. Among her most noteworthy research contributions are the expectancy-value theory of motivation and the concept of stage-environment fit.

Honors and awards

She received the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award in 1999, the

James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award The James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award is an award of the Association for Psychological Science given since 1992. The award is named after James McKeen Cattell and "honors individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to t ...

in 1996 and the

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in 2005. She was awarded the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology from the

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in 2017.

Selected publications

* Eccles, J. S., Midgley, C., Wigfield, A., Buchanan, C. M., Reuman, D., Flanagan, C., & Mac Iver, D. (1993). "Development during adolescence: The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families". ''American Psychologist'', 48(2), 90. * Eccles, J. S., & Barber, B. L. (1999). "Student council, volunteering, basketball, or marching band what kind of extracurricular involvement matters?". ''Journal of Adolescent Research'', 14(1), 10–43. * Wigfield, A., & Eccles, J. S. (2000). "Expectancy–value theory of achievement motivation". ''Contemporary Educational Psychology'', 25(1), 68–81. * Eccles, J. S., & Wigfield, A. (2002). "Motivational beliefs, values, and goals". ''

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'', 53(1), 109–132.

References

University of Michigan Department of Psychology faculty American women psychologists 21st-century American psychologists 1944 births Living people University of California, Los Angeles alumni American women academics 21st-century American women 20th-century American psychologists James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award recipients {{US-psychologist-stub