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Ellen Winner is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has written over 200 articles and is author of four books:
Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982)
The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (1988)
Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (1996)
How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (2018)
An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Art Education From Colonial Times to a Promising Future (2021)
and co-author of five books:
Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2007)
Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2013)
Studio Thinking from the Start: The K-8 Art Educator's Handbook (2018)
Studio Thinking 3: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2022)
The Child as Visual Artist (2022).
She has served as President of APA's Division 10, Psychology and the Arts in 1995-1996, and received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000. She is a fellow of APA Division 10 and of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics.
Contact: [email protected]
Festschrift
Empirical Studies of the Arts: Special Issue Festschrift: click here.
In the news on arts education
https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/31482-renaissance-school-2019-1-best-high-school-for-the/
(where they mischaracterize our research as showing arts raise academic performance)
Arts education and gifted children: Interview in Gifted Education International pdf
In the news/blogs on talent, giftedness, and rage to master
CBS Sunday morning Jan 5 2024
What does it mean to be gifted? April 2024
Interview on Gifted Children, Brazil, May 2024
Blog in The Medium refers to rage to master
Is gifted education bad? 8-12-22. pdf
NYT May 22 2024: 17 year old earns PhD
In BBC news on child prodigy Laurent Simon
Maggie Fergusson writes about the curse of giftedness in the Economist 1843 and uses the term "rage to master." https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-curse-of-genius
Mentioned in David Epstein's Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World: "psychologist Ellen Winner, one of the foremost authorities on gifted children..."
Author Casey Barrett on how the rage to master cannot be taught
Athletics:
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/be-the-best-at-anything-7-secrets-from-top-athletes
Child chefs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/t-magazine/child-chefs.html
Music
https://observer.ug/viewpoint/60387-fresh-kid-and-being-born-different-where-you-are-not-understood
Forgery? A Mystery
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demon-wall-norway
On art and art education
How Art Works. Talk presented to the American Philosophical Society, November 2018
What if art and science aren't opposites? November 2021
Art for our sake: April, 2009
How to get children to draw at home. Blog 12-15-2021
Podcast Oct 23 2024 on Keith Sawyer's Science of Creativity link
Quoted here on why artists create. From this
Best books about child art--my picks: https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-value-of-childrens-art
APA Interview: Speaking of Psychology. What Psychology Has to Say About Art. April 2022
In Discover magazine 2011 article by Ed Yong
Thoughts about AI and the arts
My comment in a 2025 article on whether AI will kill reading
Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982)
The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (1988)
Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (1996)
How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (2018)
An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Art Education From Colonial Times to a Promising Future (2021)
and co-author of five books:
Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2007)
Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2013)
Studio Thinking from the Start: The K-8 Art Educator's Handbook (2018)
Studio Thinking 3: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2022)
The Child as Visual Artist (2022).
She has served as President of APA's Division 10, Psychology and the Arts in 1995-1996, and received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000. She is a fellow of APA Division 10 and of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics.
Contact: [email protected]
Festschrift
Empirical Studies of the Arts: Special Issue Festschrift: click here.
In the news on arts education
https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/31482-renaissance-school-2019-1-best-high-school-for-the/
(where they mischaracterize our research as showing arts raise academic performance)
Arts education and gifted children: Interview in Gifted Education International pdf
In the news/blogs on talent, giftedness, and rage to master
CBS Sunday morning Jan 5 2024
What does it mean to be gifted? April 2024
Interview on Gifted Children, Brazil, May 2024
Blog in The Medium refers to rage to master
Is gifted education bad? 8-12-22. pdf
NYT May 22 2024: 17 year old earns PhD
In BBC news on child prodigy Laurent Simon
Maggie Fergusson writes about the curse of giftedness in the Economist 1843 and uses the term "rage to master." https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-curse-of-genius
Mentioned in David Epstein's Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World: "psychologist Ellen Winner, one of the foremost authorities on gifted children..."
Author Casey Barrett on how the rage to master cannot be taught
Athletics:
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/be-the-best-at-anything-7-secrets-from-top-athletes
Child chefs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/t-magazine/child-chefs.html
Music
https://observer.ug/viewpoint/60387-fresh-kid-and-being-born-different-where-you-are-not-understood
Forgery? A Mystery
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/demon-wall-norway
On art and art education
How Art Works. Talk presented to the American Philosophical Society, November 2018
What if art and science aren't opposites? November 2021
Art for our sake: April, 2009
How to get children to draw at home. Blog 12-15-2021
Podcast Oct 23 2024 on Keith Sawyer's Science of Creativity link
Quoted here on why artists create. From this
Best books about child art--my picks: https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-value-of-childrens-art
APA Interview: Speaking of Psychology. What Psychology Has to Say About Art. April 2022
In Discover magazine 2011 article by Ed Yong
Thoughts about AI and the arts
My comment in a 2025 article on whether AI will kill reading