Dan Isaac Slobin (born May 7, 1939) is a professor emeritus of psychology and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Slobin has extensively studied the organization of information about spatial relations and motion events by speakers of different languages, including both children and adults.

One seminal study, conducted with Thomas Bever, compared the acquisition of word order in children acquiring English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish.

He created "The frog-story project", a research tool which was a children's storybook that tells a story in 24 pictures with no words (Frog Where Are You?

The Berman & Slobin study compared English, German, Spanish, Hebrew and Turkish on a range of dimensions.