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Alison M. Gopnik, DPhil

Renowned Child Psychologist; Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children (2016); Co-Author, "Learning to Learn from Stories: Children's Developing Sensitivities to the Causal Structure of Fictional Worlds" (2017, Child Development), "What Happens to Creativity As We Age?" (2017, The New York Times), and The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn (2009, Reprint Edition)

Events

The Science of Innovation

The Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco, CA  February 15-17, 2018

Keynote Address II: When (and Why) Children Are More Creative Than Adults