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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

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Professor Ian Apperly FBA

Ian Apperly is an experimental psychologist. He studies social understanding, its cognitive and neural basis, how it develops, and why it varies between people.

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Professor Dame Vicki Bruce FBA

Psychology

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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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