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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 Dame Vicki Bruce FBA

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Professor Susan Golombok FBA

Parenting and child development in new family forms including same-sex parent families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete donation and surrogacy

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Professor Josef Perner FBA

Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Development (esp. Theory of Mind--philosophical and psychological aspects

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