Academic History
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 1984, Psychology
University of Rhode Island, M.A., 1977, Psychology
University of Rhode Island, B.A., 1973, Psychology
Research Interests
ociocultural developmental psychology: the developmental roles of narrative and play, social cognition, identity formation, moral development, and the interplay of literacy and orality.
Teaching Interests
Theories of Development
Social and Personality Development
Cultural Psychology
Cognitive and Language Development
Children's Play and Narrative in Learning and Development
Language, Thought, and Culture
Literacy in Developmental and Cross-Cultural Perspective
Gender Development and Gender Identity
Selected Publications
Nicolopoulou, A. (2002). Peer-group culture and narrative development. In S. Blum-Kulka & C. E. Snow
(Eds.), Talking to Adults. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. PDF version.
Richner, E. S., & Nicolopoulou, A. (2001). The narrative construction of differing conceptions of the person
in the development of young children's social understanding. Early Education and Development.
PDF version.
Nicolopoulou, A. & Weintraub, J. (1998). Individual and collective representations in social context: A
modest contribution to resuming the interrupted project of a sociocultural developmental psychology.
Human Development, 41, 215-235. .doc version.
Nicolopoulou, A. (1997). Worldmaking and identity formation in children's narrative play-acting. In B. Cox
& C. Lightfoot (Eds.). Sociogenetic Perspectives on Internalization. (pp. 157 - 187). Mahwah, NJ:
Erlbaum. PDF version.
Nicolopoulou, A. (1997). Children and narratives: Toward an interpretive and sociocultural approach. In
M. Bamberg (Ed.) Narrative Development:Six Approaches. (pp. 179 - 215). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
PDF version.
