Jacquelynne Sue Eccles (born 1944) is an Americaneducational psychologist.^[1] She is the Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine and formerly the McKeachie/Pintrich Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan.

Eccles holds a Ph.D. fromUniversity of California, Los Angeles. Her work has focused on topics related to social development, student motivation, andgender roles in education.^[2] Among her most noteworthy research contributions are theexpectancy-value theory of motivation^[3] and the concept ofstage-environment fit.^[4]

She received the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award in 1999, theJames McKeen Cattell Fellow Award in 1996 and theE. L. Thorndike Award in 2005. She was awarded theAPA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology from theAmerican Psychological Association in 2017.^[5]

• Eccles, J. S., Midgley, C., Wigfield, A., Buchanan, C. M., Reuman, D., Flanagan, C., & Mac Iver, D. (1993). "Development during adolescence: The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families".American Psychologist, 48(2), 90.
• Eccles, J. S., & Barber, B. L. (1999). "Student council, volunteering, basketball, or marching band what kind of extracurricular involvement matters?".Journal of Adolescent Research, 14(1), 10–43.
• Wigfield, A., & Eccles, J. S. (2000). "Expectancy–value theory of achievement motivation".Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25(1), 68–81.
• Eccles, J. S., & Wigfield, A. (2002). "Motivational beliefs, values, and goals".Annual Review of Psychology, 53(1), 109–132.

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