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Jerome Bruner, American psychologist and educator who developed theories on perception, learning, memory, and other aspects of cognition in young children that had a strong influence on the American educational system and helped launch the field of cognitive psychology. Bruner’s father, a watch

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Arguably one of the greatest thinkers in education, Jerome Bruner has made many significant contributions to our understanding of cognitive learning theory... but what were they?

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“Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.”– from The Process of Education

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Institution

New York University

Current Position

Research Professor of Psychology

Highest Degree

Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University, 1941

IN MEMORIAM

Professor Jerome Bruner died June 5, 2016, at the age of 100. Social Psychology Network is maintaining this profile for visitors who wish to learn more about Professor Bruner's work.

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Jerome (Jerry) Bruner is University Professor at New York University and teaches principally at NYU's School of Law. In his long and distinguished career, first as Professor of Psychology at Harvard and then as Watts Professor at Oxford, Dr. Bruner has been at the forefront of what became, in the 1960s, the "Cognitive Revolution" that continues to influence psychology around the world.

In addition to his scholarly research, Dr. Bruner has worked on educational reform in the United States and served on the President's Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. His 1961 book "The Process of Education" was and is one of the educational reform movement's major guides. Since the early 1960s, Dr. Bruner has been involved in a variety of educational enterprises, including the founding of Head Start, of which he was a major architect.

Throughout his illustrious career, Dr. Bruner has received many awards and honors, including the International Balzan Prize, the CIBA Gold Medal for Distinguished Research, and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association.

Primary Interests:

Applied Social Psychology

Culture and Ethnicity

Emotion, Mood, Affect

Ethics and Morality

Law and Public Policy

Person Perception

Social Cognition

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Books:

Amsterdam, A. G., & Bruner, J. S. (2000). Minding the law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bornstein, M. H., & Bruner, J. S. (Eds.). (2014). Interaction in human development. New York: Psychology Press.

Bruner, J. S. (2002). Making stories: Law, literature, life. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

Bruner, J. S. (1996). The culture of education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. S. (1990). Acts of meaning: Four lectures on mind and culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. S. (1986). Actual minds, possible worlds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. S. (1983). Child's talk: Learning to use language. New York: Norton.

Bruner, J. S. (1983). In search of mind: Essays in autobiography. New York: Harper & Row.

Bruner, J. S. (1977). The process of education (rev. ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. S. (1973). Beyond the information given: Studies in the psychology of knowing. Oxford, UK: W. W. Norton.

Bruner, J. S. (1971). The relevance of education. New York: Norton.

Bruner, J. S. (1966). Toward a theory of instruction. Cambridge: Belknap Press.

Bruner, J. S. (1962). On knowing: Essays for the left hand. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. S., Goodnow, J. J., & Austin, G. A. (1956). A study of thinking. New York: Wiley.

Bruner, J. S., & Haste, H. (Eds.). (1987). Making sense: The child's construction of the world. New York: Methuen.

Bruner, J. S., Jolly, A., & Sylva, K. (Eds.). (1976). Play: Its role in evolution and development. New York: Basic Books.

Connolly, K., & Bruner, J. S. (Eds.). (1974). The growth of competence. Oxford, UK: Academic Press.

Journal Articles:

Bruner, J. S. (2008). Reflections of a developmental psychologist. Human Development, 51(1), 101-103.

Bruner, J. S. (1991). The narrative construction of reality. Critical Inquiry, 18(1), 1-21.

Bruner, J. S. (1974). From communication to language- a psychological perspective. Cognition, 3(3), 255-287.

Bruner, J. S. (1964). The course of cognitive growth. American Psychologist, 19(1), 1-15.

Bruner, J. S. (1957). On perceptual readiness. Psychological Review, 64(2), 123-152.

Bruner, J. S., & Goodman, C. C. (1947). Value and need as organizing factors in perception. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 42(1), 33-44.

Wood, D., Bruner, J. S., & Ross, G. (1976). The role of tutoring in problem solving. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 17(2), 89-100.

Courses Taught:

Psychological Foundations of the Law

Vengeance and the Law

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A series of tributes to Jerome “Jerry” Bruner, who died in 2016 at the age of 100, reflects the seminal contributions that led him to be known as the founder of the cognitive revolution.