Tag: Jerome Kagan

  • Campus & Community

    An instrumental scientist

    Jerome Kagan taught at Harvard for 36 years. He died May 10.

    5–8 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    How young students think

    “Mind in the Making” explores links among social, emotional, and intellectual learning. It was part of a weeklong seminar called “Mind in the Making,” developed by the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI) as part of the University’s commitment to public service.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Often, we are what we were

    In his latest book, professor emeritus Jerome Kagan examines the temperaments of babies and how they can be predictors of adult behaviors.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Judge Baker Children’s Center welcomes a groundbreaking research project that may shed light on autism

    Harvard-affiliated Judge Baker Children’s Center is launching a research project to study autism. Jerome Kagan and Nancy Snidman, director and research director, respectively, of Harvard’s Infant and Child Study Center, in conjunction with Martha Herbert and Katherine Martien from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), are beginning to study the brain-processing mechanisms in children with autism and…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Long-term memory not fixed until after age one

    When does long-term memory develop? This was a natural question for Conor Liston, a Harvard senior, and his mentor Jerome Kagan, Starch Research Professor of Psychology. Liston conducted experiments under Kagan’s supervision, and they came up with an answer. “Our findings suggest that children have great difficulty recalling the past before the end of the…

    1–2 minutes