Lawrence Hirschfeld
Professor of Anthropology and Psychology (CSD)
Email
lawrence.hirschfeld@newschool.edu
Office Location
G - 80 Fifth Avenue
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**On leave Fall 2025-Spring 2026**
Concentrations: Cognitive development; cultural psychology; social cognition; the anthropology and history of childhood.
Degrees Held
PhD 1984, Columbia University
Recent Publications
Books
R. Viale, D. Andler, L. Hirschfeld, Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference.听 Lawrence Erlbaum Publ., 2006.
L. Hirschfeld, Race in the making: Cognition, culture and the child's construction of human kinds.听 M.I.T. Press.听 1996.
L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman (eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture. Cambridge University Press. 1994.听 Translated in Spanish: Cartografia de la mente: La especificidad de dominio en la cognicion y en la cultura. Barcelona: Gedisa. 2002
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Articles
"Collections, collectives, and individuals: Preschoolers鈥 attributions of intentionality." (Sheikh, H.). 听Cognition, 190, 99-104. (2019)
"The Rutherford Atom of Culture".听Journal of Cognition and Culture, 18(3-4), 231-261. (2018)
鈥淐hildren鈥檚 developing conceptions of race鈥 in The Handbook of Race, Racism, and the Developing Child, eds. C. McKown & S. Quintana (2008)
鈥淔olksociology and the cognitive foundations of culture鈥 Intellectica (2007)
鈥淐ulture, categorization and reasoning鈥 (with D.听 Medin, S. Unsworth), in Handbook of Cultural Psychology, eds. Shinobu Kityama & Dov Cohen (2007)
"Culture and modularity" (with Dan Sperber), In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich (eds.),听The Innate Mind. Volume 2: Culture and Cognition.听 New York: Oxford U. Press. Pp.149-164. (2006)
Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference (with R. Viale & D. Andler) (2006).
Media
Research cited in "," OZY (June 16, 2020)
Research cited in "," PopSugar (June 14, 2020)