title: Kirby Deater-Deckard
text: # Kirby Deater-Deckard
  
  Kirby D. Deater-Deckard is an American developmental psychologist who is Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as director of the Healthy Development Initiative at the UMass Center in Springfield. He has been a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science since 2008.
  
  