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Professor Susan Carey FBA

Conceptual development: innate representational capacities and the mechanisms that allow humans to transcend them; the acquisition (over evolutionary, historical and ontogenetic time frames) of physical, biological, and mathematical concepts.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Psychology
Sections
Psychology
Website
https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/susan-e-carey

Current post

Henry A Morss Jr and Elizabeth W Morss Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Marcia Johnson FBA

Cognition and cognitive neuroscience: component processes of memory and cognition, reality/source monitoring (eg, distinguishing real from imagined events), executive function, emotion and cognition, the 'self' and cognition, aging and memory

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Professor Shelley Taylor FBA

The effect of psychological (e.g., optimism, mastery) and social (e.g., social support) resources on biological functioning and health outcomes

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Professor Anke Ehlers FBA

Psychopathology and psychological treatment of anxiety disorders and psychosomatic disorders; posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobia, panic disorder, atopic dermatitis

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