Paul L Harris

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Name Paul Harris		Role Psychologist

Education University of Oxford (1968–1971) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Trusting What You're To, The work of the imagination, Children and emotion, Children's Understanding of Death, Infancy

Paul l harris

Paul L. Harris (born 14 May 1946) is a psychologist specialising in child development.

Education

He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.

Research

Since 2001 he has been a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on how children use their imaginations, first hand experience, and trust in what they're told, to understand the world.

Publications

The Development of Psychological Understanding, 1989.

Perspectives on the Child's Theory of Mind, edited, 1991, with G.E. Butterworth, A.M. Leslie, et H.M. Wellman.

Children's Understanding of Emotions 1989, avec C. Saarni.

Developing Theories of Mind 1988 with J.W. Astington et D.R. Olson.

The Work of the Imagination 2000.

Imagining the Impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children, co-editor, 2000, with K. S. Rosengren et C. N. Johnson.

Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others, 2015.

Awards

In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

In 2005 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In 2006 he was made a member of the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2007 he was granted an honorary Doctorate from the University de Rennes.

In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

In 2014 he was awarded the American Psychological Association Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in developmental psychology.

References

Paul L. Harris Wikipedia

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