Biography:Philippe Rochat (psychologist)
Philippe Rochat | |
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| Occupation | Professor of Psychology |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Emory University |
Philippe Rochat (born 1950) is a developmental psychologist known for his research on social cognition, development of a sense of self, and moral development in infancy and early childhood.[1][2] He holds the position of Professor of Psychology and Director of the Infant and Child Lab at Emory University.[3]
Rochat was a John Simon Guggenheim fellow from 2006-2007.[4] From 2014-2015 he was a Fellow at the Institut D'etudes Avancées de Paris during which his research focused on the topic of lying and confession.[5] Rochat has served on the advisory board of the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen.
Biography
Philippe Rochat was born in Geneva, Switzerland . His wife, Rana Rochat, is an artist.
Rochat received his PhD from the University of Geneva in 1983, where he was mentored by Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget and his collaborators.[3]
After the completion of his doctorate, Rochat went on to hold postdoctoral internships at Brown University, University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. He was a member of the Faculty of Psychology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1987 until 1991 when he moved to Emory University. His research on infant self-awareness has been funded by the National Science Foundation.[6]
Research
Rochat's research interests span topics of self-awareness, social cognition, and moral development across cultures in infants as early as six weeks old and young children.[7] His work highlights how conceptions of self develop early in life, demonstrating that infants are born with some degree of self-awareness and can differentiate themselves from their environments as early as six weeks old.[8] Rochat argues that self-consciousness about how one is perceived is elicited as young as two and three years old when their self-perceptions confront the realization that others may view them differently.[9] This, he proposes, is at the core of what makes humans different from other species.[10]
Books
- Rochat, P. (2001). The infant's world. Harvard University Press. Foreign translations: French (Odile Jacob, 2006), Spanish (Madrid), Danish (Copenhagen), Japanese (Minerva Press, 2004), Chinese (East China Normal University Press, 2006).
- Rochat, P. (2009). Others in mind; social origins of self-consciousness. Cambridge University Press.
- Rochat, P. (2014). Origins of possession: Owning and sharing in development. Cambridge University Press.
- Rochat, P. (2021). Moral acrobatics: How we avoid ethical ambiguities by thinking in black and white. Oxford University Press.
- Rochat, P. (2022). Finitude: The Psychology of Self and Time. Routledge Press.
Representative publications
- Rochat, P. (2003). Five levels of self-awareness as they unfold early in life. Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal, 12(4), 717–731.
- Rochat, P., Dias, M.D.G., Guo, L. Broesch, T., Passos-Ferreira, C., Winning, A. Berg, B. (2009). Fairness in distributive justice by 3-and 5-year-olds across 7 cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40(3), 416-442.
- Rochat, P., & Hespos, S. J. (1997). Differential rooting response by neonates: Evidence for an early sense of self. Early Development & Parenting, 6, 105–112.
References
- ↑ Caron, Christina (2020-04-17). "Is It Bad to Take So Many Pictures of My Kid?" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/too-many-pictures-of-kids.html.
- ↑ "Is neuroscience getting closer to explaining evil behaviour? | Aeon Essays" (in en). https://aeon.co/essays/is-neuroscience-getting-closer-to-explaining-evil-behaviour.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Philippe Rochat". http://psychology.emory.edu/cognition/rochat/lab/Rochat.html.
- ↑ "Philippe Rochat" (in en-US). https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/philippe-rochat/.
- ↑ "Philippe Rochat - Institut d'études avancées de Paris". https://www.paris-iea.fr/en/fellows/philippe-rochat-91.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 9507773 - Intermodal Determinants of Self-Exploration in Infancy". https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9507773.
- ↑ "Philippe Rochat" (in en-US). https://www.mindandlife.org/person/philippe-rochat/.
- ↑ Rochat, Philippe (2003). "Five levels of self-awareness as they unfold early in life" (in en). Consciousness and Cognition 12 (4): 717–731. doi:10.1016/S1053-8100(03)00081-3. PMID 14656513. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053810003000813.
- ↑ Rochat, Philippe (2012). "Self-consciousness and "conscientiousness" in development" (in es). Infancia y Aprendizaje 35 (4): 387–404. doi:10.1174/021037012803495276. ISSN 0210-3702. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1174/021037012803495276.
- ↑ Rochat, Philippe (2018). "The Ontogeny of Human Self-Consciousness". Current Directions in Psychological Science 27 (5): 345–350. doi:10.1177/0963721418760236. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721418760236.
External links
- Faculty Page, Emory University, Department of Psychology
- Emory Infant and Child Lab
- Philippe Rochat publications indexed by Google Scholar
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