Peter Gray
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- PhD Psychology Stanford University
- Masters Psychology Stanford University
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Otis Gray is an American psychology researcher and scholar. He is a research professor of psychology at Boston College, and the author of an introductory psychology textbook. He is known for his work on the interaction between education and play, and for his evolutionary perspective on psychology theory.
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- The evolutionary basis of risky adolescent behavior: implications for science, policy, and practice. (2012) (602)
- The decline of play and the rise of psychopathology in children and adolescents. (2011) (330)
- Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence. (2009) (142)
- Psychology, 4th ed. (2002) (120)
- The Challenges and Benefits of Unschooling, According to 232 Families Who Have Chosen that Route (2013) (64)
- Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education? (1986) (60)
- Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (2013) (56)
- Engaging Students' Intellects: The Immersion Approach to Critical Thinking in Psychology Instruction (1993) (50)
- The Special Value of Children's Age-Mixed Play. (2011) (49)
- The Memory of Catastrophe (2004) (44)
- Stress-induced responses and open-field behavior in estrous and nonestrous mice (1982) (31)
- Grown Unschoolers’ Evaluations of Their Unschooling Experiences: Report I on a Survey of 75 Unschooled Adults (2015) (21)
- Effect of the estrous cycle on conditioned avoidance in mice (1977) (21)
- The Evolutionary Biology of Education: How Our Hunter-Gatherer Educative Instincts Could Form the Basis for Education Today (2011) (19)
- Grown Unschoolers’ Experiences with Higher Education and Employment: Report II on a Survey of 75 Unschooled Adults (2015) (15)
- Play theory of hunter-gatherer egalitarianism. (2014) (12)
- Children’s Natural Ways of Educating Themselves Still Work: Even for the Three Rs (2016) (10)
- When Play Is Learning: A School Designed for Self-Directed Education. (1984) (10)
- Effects of lithium on open field behavior in “stressed” and “unstressed” rats (1976) (9)
- Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People Who Play Them (2016) (6)
- Self-Directed Education—Unschooling and Democratic Schooling (2017) (5)
- Incorporating Evolutionary Theory into the Teaching of Psychology (1996) (5)
- Risky Play (2020) (4)
- Hunter-Gatherer Egalitarianism as a Force for Decline in Sexual Dimorphism (2013) (4)
- Correlation between estrus and reduced light avoidance in mice (1978) (4)
- As Children's Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity (2013) (3)
- Mother Nature’s Pedagogy: How Children Educate Themselves (2016) (3)
- The City University of New York and the Shaughnessy Legacy: Today's Scholars Talk Back. (2007) (2)
- The Value of Psychology 101 in Liberal Arts Education: A Psychocentric Theory of the University (2008) (2)
- Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood into a Place for Play (2012) (1)
- Using Evolution By Natural Selection as an Integrative Theme in Psychology Courses (1996) (1)
- Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture (2014) (0)
- Peter Gray -a Personal Tribute from a Colleague (2001) (0)
- Building a Dream: The Seat of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States, Panama City, Panama (1988) (0)
- Rousseau’s errors: they persist today in educational theory (2015) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (2008) (0)
- Geoghegan Patrick M.. The Irish Act of Union: a Study in High Politics 1798–1801. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 290. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-22728-0. (2002) (0)
- Book Reviews (1990) (0)
- Slingerland, Edward. 2021. Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization New York: Little, Brown Spark (2022) (0)
- Short Story Writing 101 through Song : Bob Dylan's "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" (開学50周年記念号) (2005) (0)
- The origins of morality: an evolutionary account Dennis L. Krebs, 2011 Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press US$49.95 (hbk), 291 pp. ISBN 978-0199778232 (2012) (0)
- ‘A nation of beggars?’ Priests, people and politics in famine Ireland, 1846–1852. By Donal A. Kerr. Pp. xiv + 370 incl. 1 map and tables. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. £40. 0 19 820050 (1996) (0)
- The Whole Nine Yards (1993) (0)
- The Wizard World of Harry Potter : Analyzing the First Four Books of the Harry Potter Series (2001) (0)
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