Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.
The Niels Bohr Institute is a research institute of the University of Copenhagen. The research of the institute spans astronomy, geophysics, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum mechanics and biophysics.
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory.
Jüri Allik, is an Estonian psychologist.
Alexei Nikolaevich Leontiev, was a Soviet developmental psychologist and philosopher and a founder of activity theory.
Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of the developed adult brain and cognitive psychology. Qualitative differences between how a child processes their waking experience and how an adult processes their waking experience are acknowledged. Cognitive development is defined as the emergence of the ability to consciously cognize, understand, and articulate their understanding in adult terms. Cognitive development is how a person perceives, thinks, and gains understanding of their world through the relations of genetic and learning factors. There are four stages to cognitive information development. They are, reasoning, intelligence, language, and memory. These stages start when the baby is about 18 months old, they play with toys, listen to their parents speak, they watch tv, anything that catches their attention helps build their cognitive development.
Jonathan Alan Smith is a psychologist currently based at Birkbeck, University of London. He has been very prominent in promoting qualitative research within social psychology and health psychology. In particular, he has developed and promoted a particular approach known as interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
Cultural-historical psychology is a branch of psychological theory and practice associated with Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria and their Circle, who initiated it in the mid-1920s–1930s. The phrase "cultural-historical psychology" never occurs in the writings of Vygotsky, and was subsequently ascribed to him by his critics and followers alike, yet it is under this title that this intellectual movement is now widely known. The main goal of Vygotsky-Luria project was the establishment of a "new psychology" that would account for the inseparable unity of mind, brain and culture in their development in concrete socio-historical settings and throughout the history of humankind as socio-biological species. In its most radical forms, the theory that Vygotsky and Luria were attempting to build was expressed in terms of a "science of Superman", and was closely linked with the pronouncement for the need in a new psychological theory of consciousness and its relationship to the development of higher psychological functions. All this theoretical and experimental empirical work was attempted by the members of the Vygotsky Circle.
Marc H. Bornstein is an Affiliate with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, and senior advisor for research for ECD Parenting Programmes at UNICEF in New York City.
David Favrholdt was a Danish philosopher, educated with M.A.s in psychology and philosophy and later Dr. Phil. from Copenhagen University. He is one of few Danes to be included in the International Who's Who.
Sakarias Jaan Leppik is the priest of the Estonian Authonomous Orthodox church of the Tallinn Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord. Musician, composer, thinker, culture analyst, theatre and film critic and journalist.
Culture and Psychology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of psychology. The journal's editor is Jaan Valsiner. It was established in 1995 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
The Vygotsky Circle was an influential informal network of psychologists, educationalists, medical specialists, physiologists, and neuroscientists, associated with Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) and Alexander Luria (1902–1977), active in 1920-early 1940s in the Soviet Union. The work of the Circle contributed to the foundation of the integrative science of mind, brain, and behavior in their cultural and bio-social development also known under somewhat vague and imprecise name of cultural-historical psychology.
Peter Hervik is a Danish anthropologist and professor whose work focuses on the media's representations and popular consciousness in the context of identities and everyday lives of ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees in Denmark.
The Hans Kilian Award honored researchers whose outstanding scientific achievements provide a deeper insight into the historical and cultural existence of humankind and the changing human psyche. The award, a cash prize of 80,000 euros, was one of the best-endowed social sciences awards in Europe. It was awarded every two years between 2011 and 2019, five times in total.
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the integration of psychology and biology through epigenesis. It was established in 1965 by W. H. Gantt and others as Conditional Reflex; the first issue was published in 1966. In 1974 it was renamed The Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science, and it was renamed again to Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science in 1991. The journal obtained its current name in 2007. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Jaan Valsiner. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.295.
Andrea Smorti is an Italian psychologist and professor of developmental psychology who studies cognitive and narrative processes at the University of Florence. He founded the laboratory of methods and analysis techniques of illness experiences. He is the director of the laboratory of developmental process evaluation, Laboratory in the Department of Education, Languages, Inter-culture, Literature, and psychology at the University of Florence.
Kevin Joseph Connolly was a British psychologist who specialised in the field of developmental psychology and fly behaviour genetics.
Alexander N. Poddiakov, born on March 21, 1962, in Moscow, is a Russian psychologist, doctor of psychology and professor.
Brady Wagoner is an American-Danish professor of psychology at Aalborg University (Denmark), where he is currently co-director of the Centre for Cultural Psychology. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge on a Gates Cambridge scholarship, where he also co-created the F. C. Bartlett internet archive. His research has mainly focused on cultural psychology, memory, social change and the history of psychology. One of his key contributions has been to study remembering as a cultural and constructive process, further developing the legacy of Frederic Bartlett. He was honored with the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in 2021, the Lucienne Domergue Award in 2019, and the Sigmund Koch Award in 2018.
