Kagan Appointed

Jerome Kagan, an authority on the psychology of childhood, will become professor of Developmental Psychology next summer.

Because of research commitments, he will be on leave of absence until the fall of 1964 to complete work at the Fels Research Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he leads the psychology department. He is presently associate professor of Antioch College

Dr. Kagan is the author, with others, of Child Development and Personality and Personality Development: A Longitudinal Study.

A native of Rahway, N.J., now 33, he received his B.S. degree from Rutgers University in 1950 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1954. He taught at Ohio State, and served as psychologist in medical research at the U.S. Army Hospital, West Point, N.Y., before joining the staff of the Fels Institute in 1957. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Research in Child Development.