Elena L. Grigorenko, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Child Study Center

Research Interests

Dr. Elena L. Grigorenko received her Ph.D. in general psychology from Moscow State University, Russia, in 1990, and her Ph.D. in developmental psychology and genetics from Yale University in 1996. Currently, Dr. Grigorenko is Associate Professor of Child Studies, Epidemiology and Public Health, and Psychology at Yale and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Moscow State University (Russia). Dr. Grigorenko has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books. She has received awards for her work from five different divisions of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 7, 10, 15, and 24). In 2004, she won the APA Distinguished Award for an Early Career Contribution to Developmental Psychology. Elena’s current research includes studies of: (1) cognitive and linguistic adaptation of international adoptees in the US; (2) learning disabilities in harsh developmental environments and their relation to infection, intoxication, and poverty in Africa; (3) genes involved in language disorders in a genetically isolated population; (4) genes involved in learning disabilities and cognitive processing, with special emphasis on studying minority samples in the US, and (5) interactions between genetic and environmental risk factors for conduct problems and the role of these factors in response to interventions in juvenile detainees.

Recent Publications

• Grigorenko, E. L., & Sternberg, R. J. (1998). Dynamic testing. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 75–111.
• Grigorenko, E. L., Geissler, P. W., Prince, R., Okatcha, F., Nokes, C., Kenny, D. A., Bundy, D. A., & Sternberg, R. J. (2001). The organization of Luo conceptions of intelligence: A study of implicit theories in a Kenyan village. International Journal of Behavior Development, 25, 367–378.
• Grigorenko, E. L. (2003). The first candidate gene for dyslexia: Turning the page of a new chapter of research. PNAS, 100, 11190–11192.
• Grigorenko, E. L., Klin, A., & Volkmar, F. (2003). Hyperlexia: Disability or superability? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 1079–1091.
• Grigorenko, E. L., & O'Keefe, P. (2004). What do children do when they cannot go to school? In R. J. Sternberg & E. L. Grigorenko (Eds.), Culture and competence (pp. 23–53). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Grigorenko, E. L. (2005). A conservative meta-analysis of linkage and linkage-association studies of developmental dyslexia. Scientific Studies of Reading, 9, 285–316.
• Ruchkin, V. V., Koposov, R. A., af Klinteberg, B., Oreland, L. & Grigorenko, E. L. (2005). Platelet MAO B, personality, and psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 477–482.
• Grigorenko, E. L. (2005). The inherent complexities of gene–environment interactions. Journal of Gerontology, 60B, 53-64.
• Grigorenko, E. L. (2005). If John were Ivan: Would he fail in reading? In R. M. Joshi and P. G. Aaron (Eds.), Handbook of orthography and literacy (pp. 303-320). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Grigorenko, E. L., Ngorosho, D., Jukes, M., & Bundy, D. (2006). Reading in able and disabled readers from around the world: Same or different? An illustration from a study of reading-related processes in a Swahili sample of siblings. Journal of Research in Reading, 29, 104-123.

Contact

Campus Address
Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900

E-mail
elena.grigorenko@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-737-2316

Fax
203-785-3002