Professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where she runs the Cognitive Development and Learning Lab. Author of “ The Gardener and the Carpenter; What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children;” and “The Philosophical Baby. What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life”
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