Biography
Ellen
Winner is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Boston College, and Senior Research
Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition
in the arts in typical and gifted children. She is the author of over
100 articles and four books: Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the
Arts (Harvard University Press, 1982); The Point of Words:
Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (Harvard University
Press, 1988); Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (BasicBooks,
1997, translated into six languages and winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu
National Jesuit Book Award in Science); and co-author of Studio Thinking: The
Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (Teachers College Press,
2007).
She
served as President of APA's Division 10, Psychology and the Arts, in 1995-1996, and in 2000 received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior
Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association
(Division 10) and of the International
Association of Empirical Aesthetics.
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In the News:
For the Los Angeles Times article citing Ellen Winner's response to the 2011 report on arts education issued by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, click here.
March 15 2011: Featured in This Week in Psychological Science
Hawley-Dolan, A., & Winner, E. (2011). Seeing the mind behind the art: We can distinguish abstract
expressionist paintings from highly similar paintings by children, chimps, monkeys, and elephants.
Psychological Science, 22, 4, 435-441.
expressionist paintings from highly similar paintings by children, chimps, monkeys, and elephants.
Psychological Science, 22, 4, 435-441.
