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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 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 Andrew Pickles FBA

Statistical modelling and analysis with a special focus on the cognitive, emotional and behavioural development of children who confront both biological and social challenges.

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Professor Naomi Ellemers FBA

Social psychology of organisations: group processes and intergroup relations; social identity; stereotyping and discrimination; diversity and innovation; work motivation and career development; work-life balance and gender in organisations

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