BRUNER, Jerome S(eymour)

BRUNER, Jerome S(eymour). American, b. 1915. Genres: Education, Psychology, Law. Career: University Professor, Research Professor of Psychology, Senior Research Fellow in Law, New York University, NYC, 1984-. Associate Director, Office of Public Opinion Research, Princeton, New Jersey, 1942-44; Lecturer, 1945-48, Associate Professor, 1948-52, Professor of Psychology, 1957-72, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, 1961-72, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Watts Professor of Psychology, Oxford University, 1972-80; G. H. Mead University Professor, New School for Social Research, NYC, 1981-88. President, American Psychological Association, 1964-65. Publications: Mandate from the People, 1944; (with J.J. Goodnow and G.A. Austin) A Study of Thinking, 1956; (with others) Opinions and Personality, 1956; (with others) Contemporary Approaches to Cognition, 1957; Logique et perception, 1958; On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand, 1962; Man: A Course of Study, 1965; (with others) Studies in Cognitive Growth, 1966; Processes of Cognitive Growth: Infancy, 1968; The Relevance of Education, 1971; Beyond the Information Given: Studies in the Psychology of Knowing, 1973; Patterns of Growth, 1974; Under Five in Britain, 1980; In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography, 1983; Child's Talk, 1983; Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, 1986; Acts of Meaning, 1990; The Culture of Education, 1996; Minding the Law, 2000. EDITOR: Perception and Personality: A Symposium, 1950; The Growth of Competence, 1974; Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution, 1976; (with A. Garton) Human Growth and Development, 1978. Address: 200 Mercer St, New York, NY 10012, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]