Jeanne Lavonne Humphrey Block (July 17, 1923 – December 4, 1981) was an American psychologist and expert on child development.
Block was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and conducted her research with the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of California, Berkeley.
After graduating from high school, she entered Oregon State University as a home economics major, but she was dissatisfied with her education.
[7] In 1963, she was awarded a National Institute of Mental Health Special Research fellowship and spent a year in Norway with her family.
She joined the faculty as a research psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute of Human Development in 1968.
[8] Just over ten years later, the Block Study was featured on a PBS television program title, "The Pinks and the Blues."
[9][1] In the 1970s, Block published an analysis on sex-role socialization occurring in several groups of children from the United States and six Northern European countries.