Jerome Bruner

Jerome Seymour Bruner is an American psychologist who has made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner is currently a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a B.A. in 1937 from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1941. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Bruner was born on October 1, 1915 in New York, to Herman and Rose Bruner, who emigrated from Poland. He received a bachelors degree in psychology, in 1937 from Duke University, and went on to earn a masters degree in psychology in 1939 and then a doctorate in psychology in 1941 from Harvard University. In 1939 Bruner published his first psychological article on the effect of thymus extract on the sexual behavior of the female rat. During World War II, Bruner served on the Psychological Warfare Division of the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force Europe committee under Eisenhower, researching social psychological phenomena.

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