Lawrence HirschfeldPhD 1984, Columbia University
Professor of Anthropology and Psychology
Profile:Concentrations: Cognitive development; cultural psychology; social cognition; the anthropology and history of childhood.
Recent Publications:
- "The myth of mentalizing and primacy of folk sociology." In M. R. Banaji & S. A. Gelman (eds.) Navigating the Social World: What infants, children, and other species can teach us. New York: Oxford University Press (2013)
- L. Hirschfeld, "Seven myths of race and the young child." Du Bois Review 9 (1): 17-39 (2012).
- “Children’s developing conceptions of race” in The Handbook of Race, Racism, and the Developing Child, eds. C. McKown & S. Quintana (2008)
- “Can autistic children predict behavior by social stereotypes?” (with E. Bartmess, S. White & U. Frith), Current Biology (2007)
- “Folksociology and the cognitive foundations of culture” Intellectica (2007)
- “Culture, categorization and reasoning” (with D. Medin, S. Unsworth), in Handbook of Cultural Psychology, eds. Shinobu Kityama & Dov Cohen (2007)
- “Culture and modularity” (with Dan Sperber) in The Innate Mind. Volume 2: Culture and Cognition, eds. P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich (2006)
- Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference (with R. Viale & D. Andler) (2006).
6 E. 16th St., Room 926
Office Hours:Phone Number/Extension:212-229-5757 x3116
Email:HirschfL@newschool.edu
