Ellen Winner is a

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and a professor at

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

. She specializes in

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of art. Winner graduated from the

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in 1965 and received a

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from

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in 1978. She collaborated on

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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

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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)

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