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Love According to Harry Harlow
Digging into the history of psychological science, the Observer has retrieved classic interviews with prominent psychological scientists for an ongoing series Psychology (Yesterday and) Today. Each interview is introduced by a contemporary psychological scientist, and
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Subject to Participation
The following events took place a bit more than a decade ago. Norbert Ross, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the time, and I were appearing before the Menominee Language and Culture Commission in Keshena
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Katherine Kinzler
The University of Chicago, USA http://dsclab.uchicago.edu What does your research focus on? My research focuses on the development of social cognition. I believe that studying early development is essential for understanding the nature and potential
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Wendy Johnson
University of Edinburgh, UK http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/people/view.php?name=wendy-johnson What does your research focus on? My research explores how genetic and environmental influences transact to shape the way people move through their lives and become the varied individuals we
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A Dynamic Approach to Developmental Disorders
Before working with Jean Piaget, Annette Karmiloff-Smith was a conference interpreter who thought psychology was just about reaction time and questionnaires. “Piaget made me discover that [psychology] was about everything from logic to epistemology, philosophy
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Victoria Southgate
Birkbeck, University of London, UK www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/people/scientificstaff/vicky What does your research focus on? I am interested in the cognitive and neural mechanisms that enable young children, from early infancy, to interact with and learn from other
