Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
awoodward@psyc.umd.edu
(301) 405-1258

Office:   Biology-Psychology Building, 2147B
Secretary:   (301) 405-7997
Fax:   (301) 405-5914

Amanda Woodward received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1992. She was a post doctoral fellow at Cornell University and a faculty member at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at Maryland in 2005. Her research has been recognized by several awards including the John Merck Fund Young Scholars Award (1994), the APA Boyd McCandless Award (2000) and a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship (2003-2004). She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychological Association (Division 7). She serves as an Associate Editor for the APA journal Psychological Bulletin. Her research investigates infant social cognition and early language development.

Maryland Infant Studies Laboratory

Recent Publications

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Graduate Program in Developmental Psychology

Field Committee on Developmental Science

Graduate Program in Neural and Cognitive Sciences

IGERT Training Program: Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity

PSYC 455 Cognitive Development

PSYC 479 Research in Psychology

PSYC 611 Advanced Developmental Psychology

PSYC 679A Advanced Cognitive Development

PSYC 798N Development of Social Cognition

PSYC 898L / LING 849 Events in Mind and Language