Faculty Directory

Jacqueline V Lerner is a Professor of Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. She received her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. She studies the positive development of adolescents and young adults in the contexts of family, school and community, and the embedded relationships in these contexts that contribute to overall development. She has published widely in the leading journals in the field, and has authored or coauthored several chapters in the leading Handbooks in the field. She has collaborated as the PI or Co-PI on several national and international longitudinal investigations of the positive and character development of youth.