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NEUGARTEN, BERNICE (1916–2001), U.S. psychologist and leader in the fields of human development and aging. Neugarten was born in Norfolk, Nebraska, to Lithuania-born David Levin and his wife, Sadie.

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Bernice Neugarten began taking college courses as a child and earned an MA in educational psychology from the University of Chicago by twenty-one.

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NEUGARTEN, BERNICE (–), U.S. psychologist and leader in the fields of human development and aging.

Bernice Neugarten was an American psychologist who specialised in adult development and the psychology of ageing.

She spent her educational and academic careers at the University of Chicago, obtaining her B.A. (English and French) and M.A. (Educational Psychology), before receiving the first doctorate from the innovative interdisciplinary program, the Committee on Human Development, in 1943.

She became chair of the Committee in 1969. In 1980 she started a doctoral program in Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University but returned to the University of Chicago in 1988 as Rothschild Distinguished Scholar at the Center on Aging, Health, and Society, retiring in 1994.

She and her husband, Fritz, had two children. Neugarten was the author or co-author of eight books and numerous articles, book chapters, addresses, and reports; these include Vita Humane (later t