Ellen Winner

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Ellen Winner
Education Radcliffe College
Harvard University
Spouse Howard Gardner
Website www.ellenwinner.com

Ellen Winner is a psychologist and a professor at Boston College. [1] She specializes in psychology of art. [1] [2]

Winner graduated from the Putney School in 1965 [3] and received a PhD in developmental psychology from Harvard University in 1978. [4] She collaborated on Project Zero to conduct studies about the way people experience and perceive art. [5] Winner noted how psychological explorations beginning in the realm of philosophy pertained to art. [5]

From 1995 to 96, Winner served as president of the American Psychological Association Division 10. [6] In 2000, Winner was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts. [7]

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