"Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others "

(In collaboration with the College of Education and Human Sciences)

8:00 PM Friday, October 10, 2014
Dennison Theatre

"The Work of the Imagination "

3:10 PM Friday, October 10, 2014
Gallagher Business Building 123

Please join us for a seminar and lecture with Paul L. Harris. He completed work on his doctorate in psychology at Oxford University in 1971. Teaching stints in psychology followed at Lancaster University, the Free University in Amsterdam, the London School of Economics, Oxford University and Stanford University before his appointment in 2001 as Professor of Education at Harvard. He became the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education in 2005.

Professor Harris has taught and published in the areas of psychology and child, cognitive, emotional and language development. His voluminous publications include:

• Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others (2012)
• The Work of the Imagination (2000)
• Children and Emotion: The Development of Psychological Understanding (1989)

He also collaborated in editing the following books:

• Children’s Understanding of Death: From Biological to Religious Conceptions (2011)
• Imagining the Impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children (2000)
• Children’s Understanding of Emotion (1991)
• Developing Theories of Mind (1990)

Professor Harris has won book awards from the American Psychological Association and the Cognitive Development Society.  He is the 2015 winner of the American Psychological Association’s Mentor Award in Developmental Psychology.

In addition, he will give a town-gown lecture that evening at 8 p.m. in the Dennison Theatre: “Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others.”

The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.