Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Stanford University
Area: Developmental
Contact Information
Email: gelman@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 2040 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-764-0268
Alternate Office: lab
Alternate Phone: 734-647-2589
Research and Teaching Interests
My research interests include cognitive development; language acquisition; categorization; inductive reasoning; causal reasoning; and relationships between language and thought.
Representative Publications
Gelman, S. A., Taylor, M G., and Nguyen, S. (2004). Mother-child conversations about gender: Understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Volume 69, No. 1.
Gelman, S. A. (2003). The essential child: Origins of essentialism in everyday thought. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gelman, S. A., and Bloom, P. (2000). Young children are sensitive to how an object was created when deciding what to name it. Cognition, 76, 91-103.
Gelman, S. A. (2000). The role of essentialism in children's concepts. In H. W. Reese (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior, Vol. 27 (pp. 55-98). San Diego: Academic Press.
Gelman, S. A., and Heyman, G. D. (1999). Carrot-eaters and creature-believers: The effects of lexicalization on children's inferences about social categories. Psychological Science, 10, 489-493.
Recent Awards
2005 Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association for The Essential Child.
