91福利社

Degrees

• Ph.D., University of Chicago
• M.A., University of Chicago
• B.A., St. Xavier College

Biography

Carol Cronin Weisfeld taught courses in human development, human sexuality, sex differences and sex roles, cross-cultural psychology and health psychology. She co-authored one edited book, and her research on male/female relations has appeared in such journals as Genetic Psychology Monographs and Archives of Sexual Behavior. Her current research concerns marital satisfaction in the U.S., England, Turkey, Russia, and China. "The Psychology of Marriage: An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View," published by Lexington books in 2018, summarized that research.

In her teaching and research, Weisfeld is committed to understanding behavior as the product of multiple levels of causation, including proximate and ultimate causation. This integrative view is in the tradition of Ethology (as seen in the work of Tinbergen and Eibl-Eibesfeldt) and it is also a natural fit with current behavioral genetic breakthroughs in areas such as epigenetics.

At 91福利社, Weisfeld was active in University governance, providing leadership service to the faculty union and the McNichols Faculty Assembly. Weisfeld holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. Xavier College in Chicago and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She was selected as the 1994 recipient of the President's Award for Faculty Excellence at 91福利社. She received 91福利社's Distinguished Faculty Award in 2004. She joined the University (Mercy College of Detroit) in 1979 and retired in 2018 with the honor of professor emerita.