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Ellen Winner is a psychologist and a professor at Boston College. She specializes in psychology of art.

Winner graduated from the Putney School in 1965 and received a PhD in developmental psychology from Harvard University in 1978. She collaborated on Project Zero to conduct studies about the way people experience and perceive art. Winner noted how psychological explorations beginning in the realm of philosophy pertained to art.

From 1995 to 96, Winner served as president of the American Psychological Association Division 10. In 2000, Winner was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts.

Works

• Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982)
• The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (1988)
• Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (1996)

References

1. ^ Menaker, Daniel (2017-06-21). "Two New Books Offer Advice for the Socially Awkward". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
2. Bloom, Paul (2018-09-06). "What We Know About Art and the Mind". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
3. Cuerdon, Don (Fall 2015). "Putney Post". Putney Post. p. 23. Archived from the original on 2021-09-01. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
4. "Harvard researcher on psychology of art". Harvard Gazette. 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
5. ^ "BC's Winner Speaks on Art and Psychology at Harvard Bookstore". The Heights. 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
6. "History of Division 10". div10.org. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
7. "Awards & Recognitions". div10.org. Retrieved April 5, 2019.

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