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Informationen zum Autor Mahzarin Banaji taught at Yale University for many years and currently teaches at Harvard where she is Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology. Banaji studies unconscious thoughts and feelings as they unfold in social context and explores the implications of her research for raising the quality of individual responsibility and organizational practices in business, law, government, medicine and health. Banaji is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Herbert A. Simon Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Psychological Science (of which she was President).Banaji has won Yale's Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence, a James McKeen Cattell Award, the Morton Deutsch Award for Social Justice, the Gordon Alloprt Prize foreutsch Intergroup Relations, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, themon Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Santa Fe Institute. Her career contributions have been recognized by a Presidential Citation from the American Psychologicald by Association as well as the Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology.Susan Gelman teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is the Heinz Werner Collegiate Professor of Psychology. Gelman's research focuses on concept and language development in young children. She is the author of over 200 scholarly publications, including The Essential Child (Oxford University Press 2003), which received the Cognitive Development Society Book Award and the Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize from the American Psychological Association (Division 7), and the Cognitive Science Society. She has received numerous awards, including a J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship, a James McKeen Cattell Fund sabbatical fellowship, the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the Developmental Area, and the Developmental Psychology Mentor Award of Division 7, American Psychological Association. Gelman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences 2012. Klappentext Navigating the social world requires sophisticated cognitive machinery that, although present quite early in crude forms, undergoes significant change across the lifespan. This book will be the first to report on evidence that has accumulated on an unprecedented scale, showing us what capacities for social cognition are present at birth and early in life, and how these capacities develop through learning in the first years of life. "From good and evil to trust, imitation, and theory of mind, an amazing collection of up-to-the-minute snapshots by an all-star cast." Gary Marcus, Professor of Psychology, New York University, author of The Birth of the Mind, Kluge, and Guitar Zero "An abundance of contributors, and each provides a golden nugget: readable, quotable, inspiring. They do not just provide the miraculous 'look how early infants can manifest adult-like sophistication in social cognition'-though the book reveals much of that. But they offer discoveries of mechanisms and insights into the contexts for children developing social cognitive skills, as a requirement of surviving and thriving. This collection supplies not just 'wow!' but 'how...', not just 'oh my!' but 'here's why." Susan T. Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor, Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University "Together at last-the cognitive and the social! In this remarkable volume, Banaji and Gelman present 70 short, lucid essays from psychology's leading thinkers. Together the chapters, rich with everyday examples and clear explanations, light up how the social world shapes children's minds and how these minds shape their worlds. All the most challenging issues are examined here-how children understand...
