Ellen Winner | |
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Education | Radcliffe College Harvard University |
Spouse | Howard Gardner |
Website | www |
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]