Michael Lewis, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor
Institute for the Study of Child Development
Department of Pediatrics
UMDNJ--Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
97 Paterson Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Phone: (732) 235-7700
Fax: (732) 235-6189
E-mail: lewis@umdnj.edu
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Michael Lewis, Ph.D. is University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He also is Professor of Psychology, Education, Cognitive Science, and Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University . His research has focused on normal and deviant emotional and intellectual development. His early work focused on the normal course of children's intellectual growth. He related this to changes in the organization of central nervous system functioning, and he developed the habituation-dishabituation paradigm for measuring dysfunctional and normal cognitive development. Based on these measures, Dr. Lewis developed a computer-based technique for enhancing intellectual ability in children suffering from a variety of disorders associated with retardation.
In his 1979 book, Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self, he began the research on the use of mirror recognition. His 1983 book, Children's Emotions and Moods, was the first volume devoted to emotional development, and his Handbook of Emotional Development (1993) was awarded the 1995 Critics Choice Award. Through his pioneering efforts in both theory and measurement, Dr. Lewis has been one of the leaders in the study of emotional development. His 1992 book, Shame: The Exposed Self, continued his interest in emotional development, turning attention to the little studied areas of self-conscious emotions. It has been translated into German, Italian, and Japanese.
Dr. Lewis’ book, Altering Fate: Why The Past Does Not Predict The Future (1997), describes various developmental theories and argues for the proposition that early childhood does not seal one's fate. This book has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, and Danish. Here he argues that children's environments, at whatever age, determine how children behave, and he suggests that altering environments should be the major task in effecting social adjustment and mental health.
Besides Children's Emotions and Moods, Shame: The Exposed Self, Altering Fate: Why The Past Does Not Predict the Future, Social Cognition and the Acquisition of Self (1979) and Language Interaction Intervention Program: A Workshop Curriculum for Parent Training (1991), Dr. Lewis has authored four research monographs as well as 31 edited books, the most recent of which are the Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology (2000) and an Introduction to Infant Development (2002). In addition, he has had published over 350 articles and chapters in professional journals and scholarly texts.
Dr. Lewis has served as a consulting editor of Psychological Inquiry, SRCD Monographs, Journal of Sex Roles, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Child Development, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, Mother's Today & Working Parents, Developmental Psychology, Infant Mental Health Journal, Human Development, Roeper Review, Infant Behavior and Development, and Developmental Psychology. In addition, he has served and currently serves on many national committees such as American Foundation of Maternal and Child Health, International Association for Infant Mental Health, William T. Grant Foundation National Consortium on Infant Stress, New Jersey's Governor's Council on Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, and Center for Advancement of Health. Among his honors, Dr. Lewis is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, American Psychological Association, and American Association of the Advancement of Science, as well as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 1995, he was ranked by a University of Notre Dame study number 1 in terms of the impact of scientists who are most referenced and productive in the field of developmental sciences.
Dr. Lewis has delivered numerous honorary lectures, including the Pickering Lecture, Hamilton University, Canada; Masters Lecture at the American Psychological Association; 50th Anniversary Address at the Eastern Psychological Association; 20th Anniversary William A. Schonfeld Address; Plenary Speaker at the American Academy of Pediatrics; Westmead Lecture in Sydney, Australia; Harris Lecture at the University of Chicago; National Child Research Foundation Visiting Lecture, Paediatric Society of New Zealand; Keynote Speaker, First International Conference on Developmental Disabilities in Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel; and the Theodore D. Tjossem Memorial Lecture, University of Washington.
Dr. Lewis currently is working on two new works, one on the Role of Consciousness in Children's Development and the other on Little White Lies and Then Some.
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