Navigating the Social World: What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us (Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience) - Hardcover

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Mahzarin Banaji taught at Yale University for many years and currently teaches at Harvard where she is Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology. Banaji studies unconscious thoughts and feelings as they unfold in social context and explores the implications of her research for raising the quality of individual responsibility and organizational practices in business, law, government, medicine and health. Banaji is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Herbert A. Simon Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for Psychological Science (of which she was President).

Banaji has won Yale's Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence, a James McKeen Cattell Award, the Morton Deutsch Award for Social Justice, the Gordon Alloprt Prize foreutsch Intergroup Relations, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, themon Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Santa Fe Institute. Her career contributions have been recognized by a Presidential Citation from the American Psychologicald by Association as well as the Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology.

Susan Gelman teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is the Heinz Werner Collegiate Professor of Psychology. Gelman's research focuses on concept and language development in young children. She is the author of over 200 scholarly publications, including The Essential Child (Oxford University Press 2003), which received the Cognitive Development Society Book Award and the Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize from the American Psychological Association (Division 7), and the Cognitive Science Society. She has received numerous awards, including a J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship, a James McKeen Cattell Fund sabbatical fellowship, the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the Developmental Area, and the Developmental Psychology Mentor Award of Division 7, American Psychological Association. Gelman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences 2012.