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7. Alison Gopnik, Professor, Philosopher, Psychologist

2021/10/30
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Alison Gopnik is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning.

She has an incredible childhood reading environment. By the time she was 16 years old, she had read a bunch of Jane Austen, Charles Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare and other great authors in literature.