Biography:Susan Gelman

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Short description: American psychologist (born 1957)
Susan Gelman
Gelman photo.jpg
Gelman in 2016
Born (1957-07-24) July 24, 1957 (age 66)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOberlin College, Stanford University
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology and linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
Websitesites.lsa.umich.edu/gelman-lab

Susan A. Gelman (born July 24, 1957) is currently Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of psychology and linguistics and the director of the Conceptual Development Laboratory at the University of Michigan.[1] Gelman studies language and concept development in young children.[2][3] Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, which asserts that the mind is composed of specialized modules supervising specific functions in the human and other animals.[4][5][6] Her book The Essential Child is an influential work on cognitive development.

Gelman was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008[7] and the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.[8] She has served as the President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2018)[9] and the President of the Cognitive Development Society (2005-2007).[10][11] Gelman is a founding co-editor of the journal the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology.[12]

Education

Gelman received her B.A., Psychology and Classical Greek from Oberlin College in 1980, and her Ph.D. in Psychology, with a Ph.D. minor in Linguistics from Stanford University in 1984.[13] Her PhD advisor was Ellen Markman.[14]

Career

Gelman is currently the Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of psychology and linguistics and the director of the Conceptual Development Laboratory at the University of Michigan.[1]

She was previously the Frederick G. L. Huetwell professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[15]

Research

Gelman directs the Conceptual Development Lab in the Psychology Department of the University of Michigan. Most of the studies conducted at the lab focus on children between the ages of 2 and 10, and are carried out in a home-like laboratory setting or in local preschools and middle schools.[16]

Gelman is the author of over 200 publications in psychology research or related articles.[17] Her research focuses on cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and the relationship between language and thought.[18]

Her books include:

Essentialism

Gelman has been a major contributor to essentialism and relating essentialist ideas to varying aspects in psychology. Gelman's work within the two fields share a familiar subsection: development of children. Her work has established that children, within a given age range, are able to detect underlying essences or root causes for predicting observed behaviors. Gelman's work has yielded insights into how children acquire language. Her book The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought is an influential work on cognitive development and essentialism that has been cited more than 2000 times.[19]

Research areas and topics of interest

Awards

  • 2016, G. Stanly Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology, Division 7, American Psychological Association.[17][20]
  • 2012, elected to the National Academy of Sciences[8][15]
  • 2012, Developmental Psychology Mentor Award, Division 7, American Psychological Association [21]
  • 2008, elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences[7]
  • 2007–2008, James Mckeen Cattell Fund Fellowship, Association for Psychological Science[22]
  • 2005, Eleanor Maccoby Book prize from Division 7 at the American Psychological Association for The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought (2003)[23]
  • 2005, inaugural Best Authored Book Award, Cognitive Development Society. for The Essential Child (2003)[24]
  • 1996, J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship[25]
  • 1992, Robert L. Fantz Award, American Psychological Foundation[26]
  • 1992, Distinguished Scientific Award, American Psychological Association, for Early career Contribution to Psychology[27]

Family

Her younger brother is the statistician Andrew Gelman of Columbia University.[28] The cartoonist Woody Gelman was her uncle.[29]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Susan Gelman" (in en). https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/gelman.html. 
  2. ↑ Foster-Hanson, E.; Leslie, S.J. (2016). "How does generic language elicit essentialist beliefs?". Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, PA: Cognitive Science Society. https://www.princeton.edu/~sjleslie/How%20does%20generic%20language%20elicit.pdf. Retrieved 8 November 2021. 
  3. ↑ Gelman, Susan A. (1 January 2009). "Learning from Others: Children's Construction of Concepts". Annual Review of Psychology 60 (1): 115–140. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093659. ISSN 0066-4308. PMID 18631027. PMC 2829654. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093659. Retrieved 8 November 2021. 
  4. ↑ Visala, Aku (28 June 2013) (in en). Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion: Religion Explained?. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-4094-8155-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=KACiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37. Retrieved 8 November 2021. 
  5. ↑ Smith, Michael Sharwood; Truscott, John (2014). The Multilingual Mind: A Modular Processing Perspective. Cambridge University Press. p. 30. ISBN 9781107729605. 
  6. ↑ Carey, Susan (2011). The Origin of Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 272, 383. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Susan A. Gelman". https://www.amacad.org/person/susan-gelman. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wadley, Jared (2012-05-03). "Psychology researcher Susan Gelman elected to National Academy of Sciences". Record Update. https://www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/120503/nas. 
  9. ↑ "Past Presidents". http://www.socphilpsych.org/pastofficers.html. 
  10. ↑ "About CDS (Past Officers)" (in en-CA). https://cogdevsoc.org/about-cds/. 
  11. ↑ Wellman, Henry M.; Ornstein, Peter A.; Woodward, Amanda; Uttal, David (2017). "History of the Cognitive Development Society: The First 16 Years". Journal of Cognition and Development 18 (3): 392–397. doi:10.1080/15248372.2016.1276915. 
  12. ↑ "Annual Review of Developmental Psychology Editorial Committee". https://www.annualreviews.org/editorial-committee/developmental-psychology. 
  13. ↑ Schlissel, Mark S. (July 16, 2020). "Regents Communication: Henry Russel Lecturer for 2021". https://regents.umich.edu/files/meetings/07-20/2020-07-X-2.pdf. 
  14. ↑ "Ellen Markman". https://academictree.org/linguistics/peopleinfo.php?pid=18736. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Wadley, Jared (May 2, 2012). "Psychology researcher Susan Gelman receives top scientific honor". https://news.umich.edu/psychology-researcher-susan-gelman-receives-top-scientific-honor/. 
  16. ↑ "Conceptual Development Lab". https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/gelman-lab/. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Susan Gelman CV". https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/gelman-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/154/2021/04/SGVITA-12.24.20.pdf. 
  18. ↑ "Susan A. Gelman". https://academic.microsoft.com/author/636220799/publication/search?q=Susan%20A.%20Gelman&qe=Composite(AA.AuId%253D636220799)&f=&orderBy=0&paperId=1475870722. 
  19. ↑ "Susan Gelman". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=22HTHhYAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  20. ↑ "G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology". https://www.apadivisions.org/division-7/awards/hall?tab=3. 
  21. ↑ "Mentor Award in Developmental Psychology". https://www.apadivisions.org/division-7/awards/mentor?tab=4. 
  22. ↑ "James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship Recipients". https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-and-honors/cattell-fund/fellowship-recipients. 
  23. ↑ "Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology". https://www.apadivisions.org/division-7/awards/book?tab=4. 
  24. ↑ Bauer, Patricia J. (13 April 2007). "The Cognitive Development Society Best Authored Book Award". Journal of Cognition and Development 8 (2): 257–258. doi:10.1080/15248370701202513. ISSN 1524-8372. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248370701202513. Retrieved 8 November 2021. 
  25. ↑ "Susan A. Gelman". https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/susan-a-gelman/. 
  26. ↑ "Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award for Young Psychologists". https://www.apa.org/apf/funding/fantz?tab=4. 
  27. ↑ No Authorship Indicated (1992). "Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology: Susan A. Gelman". American Psychologist 47 (4): 481–483. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.47.4.481. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1992-28897-001. Retrieved 8 November 2021. 
  28. ↑ Galef, Julia; Gelman, Susan (December 13, 2015). "Susan Gelman on 'How essentialism shapes our thinking'". Rationally Speaking: Official Podcast of New York City Skeptics. Episode RS 149. Full transcript (PDF). Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  29. ↑ Gelman, Andrew (14 July 2006). "Uncle Woody". http://andrewgelman.com/2006/07/14/uncle_woody/. 

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