Alison Gopnik

@AlisonGopnik

Cognitive scientist, psychologist, philosopher, author of Scientist in the Crib, Philosophical Baby, The Gardener & The Carpenter, WSJ Mind And Matter columnist

Berkeley
Joined September 2011

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  1. I couldn't be more pleased than to feature in Ezra Klein's list of best episodes from his great podcast. The podcast is my favorite listening, too, always combines intelligence and information, and is a model of substantive but reasonable debate

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    21 hours ago

    Update: we have extended the deadline to submit to "Bridging AI and Cognitive Science" at until Feb. 11th, to avoid conflicts with ICML. Enjoy a few extra days to work on your submissions! 🙂

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    Jan 30

    APA member interviewed on in an episode titled, "The Evolutionary Power of Children and Teenagers."

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  4. Jan 31

    An interview for Australian radio, during our marvelous Australian trip

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    Jan 28

    “There’s a lot of reason to believe that adolescents are often at the cutting edge of social change.” —

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    Jan 27

    “Basically, we’re human up till puberty and after menopause, and then, in between, we’re glorified primates, trying to do all those primate things about mating and dominating and finding our way in the social hierarchy.” —

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    Jan 26

    I'm used to hearing moments of joy during , but the moment shared with about 35 min. into this week's episode about humanity being what occurs BEFORE puberty and AFTER fertility was really special. They both sound so happy in the conversation.

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  8. Jan 23

    I really enjoyed this conversation with Krista Tippet at On Being about the spiritual aspects, broadly construed, of childhood and having children, (nice picture, too)...

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    I really enjoyed this conversation with Krista Tippet for On Being, what children can tell us about spiritual questions, broadly construed

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    Jan 17

    After tracking teens every day on their phones we decided to take stock of the larger literature. It turns out that once you separate facts from the fears, there are few convincing connections between digital technology use and adolescents' mental health.

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  12. Jan 16

    I'm so pleased to be co-organizing what should be a great workshop on AI and Cog Sci at ICLR in Ethiopia. Submissions welcome!

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  13. Jan 16

    My latest column, with thanks to Augie who, as he points out, had the idea! (and acted as Star Wars fact-check.)

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  14. Jan 16

    Humans Evolved to Love Baby Yoda

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    What’s the connection between human evolution and the wildly popular Baby Yoda? Columnist has the answer. via

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  16. Jan 14
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  17. Jan 9

    This is a great story on a very hopeful idea for parents and children

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    Love Augie's but can't get into the shop? Augie's products are available at over 30 markets across Northern California: Berkeley Bowl, Mollie Stones, Lunardi's, Scotty's Market in San Raphael, CalMart in Calistoga, Browns Valley Market in Napa, and Corti Brothers in Sacramento.

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  19. Jan 6

    Petition to the Regents making Climate Crisis policy a central part of the search for a new UC president. All members of the University of California, students, staff and...

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  20. Jan 6

    Petition to the Regents making Climate Crisis policy a central part of the search for a new UC president. All members of the University of California, students, staff and faculty can sign.

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