Jean Piaget (1896-1980) always considered himself a natural scientist, not a psychologist. As a boy he quickly gave up play and pretend to take refuge in "work" -- exploring internal combustion ...

IT is late afternoon, but the four-year-old insists: “It can’t be. I haven’t had my nap.” Such is the mind of the child, by most indications illogical and full of nonsense. Not so, says Jean Piaget, a ...

This kind of apparently chaotic behavior served as the inspiration for developmental psychologist Jean Piaget’s best-known theory: that children construct ... who works on computational models of ...

We have to thank the Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget for 'learning by play' applied to the classroom - a personal discovery which he believed to be far more effective than sitting in ...

Henrike Moll receives funding from the Office of Naval Research. Until a few decades ago, scholars believed that young children know very little, if anything, about what others are thinking. Swiss ...

Claudia Hammond revisits Jean Piaget's Swiss Mountain experiment to ask whether the conclusions concerning young children's essential egocentrism are accurate. Show more We have to thank the Swiss ...