George Butterworth (psychologist)
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George Butterworth (1946–2000) was a British professor of
psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
, who studied
infant development Child development involves the Human development (biology), biological, developmental psychology, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. Childhood is divided into 3 stages o ...
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Life and work

After completing his D.Phil. at Oxford, Butterworth took a post at Southampton University, moving to a chair in psychology at Stirling in 1985, before coming to Sussex in 1991. He was appointed honorary professor, University of East London, in 1996. His contributions to the discipline include founding both the British Infancy Research Group and the Journal Developmental Science, as well as heading numerous groups ranging from the Scientific Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society to the European Society for Developmental Psychology.


Selected publications

* Butterworth, George, Julie Rutkowska, and Michael Scaife. ''Evolution and developmental psychology.'' Vol. 4. Harvester, 1985. Articles, a selection: * Butterworth, George, and Nicholas Jarrett. "What minds have in common is space: Spatial mechanisms serving joint visual attention in infancy." ''British journal of developmental psychology'' 9.1 (1991): 55–72. * Carpenter, Malinda, et al. "Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9 to 15 months of age." ''Monographs of the society for research in child development'' (1998): i-174.


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