Jean Mercer, Ph.D.

Jean Mercer received her Ph.D. in general experimental psychology from Brandeis University. She taught developmental psychology at Richard Stockton College for many years. For some time the president of the New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health, she is the author of a textbook on infant development and of Understanding Attachment, a general-interest book about early emotional development. Her interest in pseudoscience and folk beliefs about children led to the publication of the co-authored book Attachment Therapy on Trial her 2009 supplementary textbook, Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings. She has been instructed about child development by two sons and two stepsons, and two grandsons are continuing her education.

Her PT blog is Child Myths.