Professor Paul Harris FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1998
- Subjects
- Psychology
- Sections
- Psychology
Summary
Paul Harris is a developmental psychologist with interests in the development of cognition, emotion and imagination. After studying psychology at Sussex and Oxford, he taught at the University of Lancaster, the Free University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics. In 1980, he moved to Oxford where he became Professor of Developmental Psychology and Fellow of St John's College. In 2001, he migrated to Harvard where he holds the Victor S. Thomas Professorship of Education. For 2006-2007, he received a Guggenheim award. He currently studies how young children learn about history, science and religion on the basis of what trusted informants tell them. His latest book 'Trusting what you're told: How children learn from others' describing this research, was published by Harvard University Press (May, 2012). It has received the Eleanor Maccoby award from the American Psychological Association and the Book Award of the Cognitive Development Society. In 2015, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Current post
Victor S Thomas Professorship of Education, Harvard University
Past appointments
Harvard University Professor of Education
2001 -
Other Foreign Institutions Victor S. Thomas Professorship of Education, Harvard University
2001 -
University of Oxford Professor of Developmental Psychology
1998 - 2001
St John's College University of Oxford Fellow
1981 - 2001
Publications
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Nationalism; far-right; rhetoric and thinking; psycho-analysis and repression; history of psychology; academic writing; psychology and humour; theory and examples in psychology; history of rock’n’roll
