{"id":13366,"date":"2022-07-28T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=13366"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:57:37","slug":"petra-hesse","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/profile\/petra-hesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Petra Hesse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Petra Hesse<\/strong> is an associate professor of human development. Trained in developmental and clinical psychology and international relations, she has been teaching courses on the human life cycle, social-emotional development, abnormal and counseling psychology, children and the media, and children\u2019s political socialization.<\/p>\n<p>Her research interests are children\u2019s emotional development and emotional education, children\u2019s political socialization and political education, and children\u2019s media and media literacy education.<\/p>\n<p>She has written for a variety of European and American publications: Psychosozial, Telemedium, International Journal of Mental Health, Young Children, and Contemporary Psychological Review. In graduate school, she co-edited a monograph on emotional development and co-authored several book chapters on emotional development. As a post-doctoral fellow, she wrote about children\u2019s fears of nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>Since her arrival at Wheelock, she has written about children\u2019s enemy images in different cultures, about German adolescents before and after reunification, and about children\u2019s reactions to 9\/11. She produced a videotape and wrote several articles and book chapters about political messages on children\u2019s television. Hesse\u2019s most recent publications are about media literacy education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17148,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13368,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13366\/revisions\/13368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/jewishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}