Alison Gopnik appears in the following:
Things
Thursday, December 12, 2019
This hour we investigate the objects around us, their power to move us, and whether it's better to look back or move on, hold on tight or just let go.
"Parent" Shouldn't Be a Verb
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
New research challenges parenting intuition and the way in which we need to change parenting to keep up with the times.
Object Lesson
Friday, May 30, 2014
Are we built to think that the things around us will last? Psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik tells us about a few experiments that complicate our understanding of peek-a-boo. Then she pulls us into a philosophical rabbit hole where a swamp clones Robert, Neil Armstrong writes an email, and we ...
Why Kids Are The Best Scientists
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
The next time your children get filthy playing in the riverbed or taking apart the remote control, stop before you scold. Scientists say that this kind of play is actually like hands-...
The Rules Can Set You Free
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Play is something we all do--it seems so natural, it feels a little bit ridiculous to ask why we need it.
Games
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Winners, losers, underdogs—what can games tell us about who we really are?
Baby Thoughts
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, talks about her new book The Philosophical Baby: What Children?s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009).