Susan Krauss Whitbourne
American psychologist
Susan Krauss Whitbourne (born 1948) is a developmental clinical psychologist known for her work on personality and identity over the lifespan. She holds the position of professor emerita of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Whitbourne served as president of the Eastern Psychological Association from 2017 to 2018 and as president of the American Psychological Association, Division 20, Adult Development and Aging from 1995 to 1996.
She received an APA Presidential Citation in 2011 and was awarded the Distinguished Membership Award from Psi Chi, The International Honors Society in Psychology in 2018.
Biography
Whitbourne was born on December 16, 1948, in Buffalo, New York. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology at the University at Buffalo in 1970 and her Ph.D. in clinical/developmental psychology at Columbia University in 1974. She subsequently finished a clinical psychology postdoctoral re-specialization program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Whitbourne was an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo from 1973 to 1975. She was on the faculty of the University of Rochester from 1976 to 1984, before moving to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At Rochester, Whitbourne was involved in conducting the Rochester Adult Longitudinal Study––a 50-year, 4-cohort, 1200 participant, 5-wave sequential study of Eriksonian psychosocial development in adulthood.
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