JEAN MERCER
Jean Mercer (PhD, Psychology, Brandeis University), Professor Emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College, has taught undergraduate courses on developmental psychology, infant development, statistics, and research methods for 30 years. A past president of the New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health and a Fellow of the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, she has written a general interest book about early emotional development, Understanding Attachment (Praeger, 2006), and a textbook, Infant Development: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (Brooks/Cole, 1998). She recently served as an expert witness in the trial of a mother who kept her adopted children in cages and claimed she had a book advising this, providing a good example of failure to think straight about child development.