1. Susan A Gelman was born on July 24,1957 and is currently Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of psychology and linguistics and the director of the Conceptual Development Laboratory at the University of Michigan.
12 Facts About Susan Gelman
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Susan Gelman's book The Essential Child is an influential work on cognitive development.
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Susan Gelman has served as the President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the President of the Cognitive Development Society.
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Susan Gelman was a founding co-editor of the journal the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology.
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Susan 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.
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Susan Gelman directs the Conceptual Development Lab in the Psychology Department of the University of Michigan.
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Susan Gelman is the author of over 200 publications in psychology research or related articles.
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Susan Gelman's research focuses on cognitive development, language acquisition, categorization, inductive reasoning, causal reasoning, and the relationship between language and thought.
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Susan Gelman has been a major contributor to essentialism and relating essentialist ideas to varying aspects in psychology.
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Susan Gelman's work has established that children, within a given age range, are able to detect underlying essences or root causes for predicting observed behaviors.
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Susan Gelman's work has yielded insights into how children acquire language.
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Susan Gelman's 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.