Jerome S Bruner
Biographic Data
| ID | 281640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome S Bruner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome S |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruner |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNER J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 100 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 100 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The uneasy relation of culture and mind
Contents, Vol. 36, 1993
Contents, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1997
Commentary
Plot, Plight, and Dramatism: Interpretation at Three Ages
There is a good deal of interest today in cultural psychology and its central forms of thought, which are interpretive or meaning making rather than computational or algorithmic. At the same time, there is a good deal of concern that such a focus is incompatible with the praxis of empirical or scientific psychology. The research described in this article is an attempt to exemplify one way that a scientific study of interpretive processes might pr…
The Process of Education: Revised Edition
How Adults and Children Search and Recognize Pictures
The eye fixations of 20 young adults and 20 children, aged six, were recorded while they were recognizing or inspecting a series of displays. The test photographs presented three levels of definition for one particular scene: very blurred, blurred, or sharp. Each picture was presented for two 10-second trials. Either the very blurred or the sharp picture was given first to a particular S. The eye tracks were therefore recorded either during attem…
Culture and Mind: Their Fruitful Incommensurability
I reflect here on the historical junctures where anthropology and psychology cross paths, creating foundations for a general cultural psychology in the present.1I am particularly attuned to those points of intersection that inform understanding of mind in culture and culture in mind. I focus on institutions as means for canonizing the ordinary, on narrative as a mode of positioning the extraordinary vis-à-vis mundane expectations, and on agency, …
In Search of Pedagogy Volume I
A short history of psychological theories of learning
University, where he teaches principally in the School of Law. With George Miller he founded Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies in the early 1960s. He has published widely, his work principally focusing on the interaction of mind and culture. His latest book is Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life (2002). -L/earning remains an elusive topic, de spite the endless research lavished on it. And what we mean by it, of course, is shaped by how we …
Life as Narrative
Jerome Bruner Life as Narrative I WOULD LIKE TO TRY OUT AN IDEA THAT MAY NOT BE QUITE READY, indeed may not be quite possible. But I have no doubt it is worth a tiy. It has to do with the nature of thought and with one of its uses. It has been traditional to treat thought, so to speak, as an instrument of reason. Good thought is right reason, and its efficacy is measured against the laws of logic or induction. Indeed, in its most recent computati…
Tributes to Howard E. Gruber
Self-making and world-making
Minding the Law
Minding the Law
Journal Article Minding the Law Get access Amsterdam Anthony G. Bruner Jerome, Minding the LawCambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. x, 453 pp. $35.00. James L. Kainen James L. Kainen Fordham University School of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 498–500, https://doi.org/10.2307/3113831 Published: 01 October 2000
Narratives of aging
Routes to reference
However one conceives of the relation between a sign and its significate, referring is a communicative act in which a speaker must intentionally direct the attention of an interlocutor to some object, event, or state of affairs that the speaker has in mind. This article examines the ontogenesis and phylogenesis of acts of referring, with special concern for the possible nature of sign-significate relationships. Findings from developments psycholo…
What is a Narrative Fact
This article explores the manner in which culturally prevalent narratives lead us not only to interpret facts in a particular way but also to generate those very facts through the acts we perform in consonance with these narratives
Labov and Waletzky Thirty Years On
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The Culture of Education
The Autobiographical Process
The View from the Heart's Eye: A Commentary
The “remembered” self
The expression the remembered self is, I suspect, a cunningly designed oxymoron – rather like, say, the title of a recent book, The Remembered Present (Edelman, 1990), which also poses a conceptual challenge. I gladly accept the challenge, for I shall want to argue in what follows that Self is not an entity that one can simply remember, but is, rather, a complex mental edifice that one constructs by the use of a variety of mental processes, one o…
The Mind According to Bruner
The Narrative Construction of Reality
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Bruner sets forth nothing less than a new agenda for the study of the mind. He examines the irrepressibly human acts of imagination that allow us to make experience meaningful; he calls this side of mental activity the “narrative mode,” and his book makes important advances in the effort to unravel its nature.
Life as Narrative
Jerome Bruner Life as Narrative I WOULD LIKE TO TRY OUT AN IDEA THAT MAY NOT BE QUITE READY, indeed may not be quite possible. But I have no doubt it is worth a tiy. It has to do with the nature of thought and with one of its uses. It has been traditional to treat thought, so to speak, as an instrument of reason. Good thought is right reason, and its efficacy is measured against the laws of logic or induction. Indeed, in its most recent computati…
The ontogenesis of speech acts
A speech act approach to the transition from pre-linguistic to linguistic communication is adopted in order to consider language in relation to behaviour generally and to allow for an emphasis on the USE of language rather than on its form. The structure of language is seen as non-arbitrary in that it reflects both attention structures (via predication) and action structures (via the fundamental case grammatical form of language). Linguistic conc…
The course of cognitive growth
Value and need as organizing factors in perception
Nature and uses of immaturity
Cultural differences and inferences about psychological processes
Culture and Human Development: A New Look
Each culture generates a ‘folk psychology’ in the form of narratives about how people are, how and why they act, and how they deal with trouble. These narratives typically depict a canonical state of things and a deviation from that state. Stories are means for making these deviations comprehensible, if not acceptable. Typically, a culture’s institutional structure serves to ratify and even enforce its folk psychology. Studies are cited to show h…
Contemporary approaches to cognition: A symposium held at the University of Colorado.
Culture and Mind: Their Fruitful Incommensurability
I reflect here on the historical junctures where anthropology and psychology cross paths, creating foundations for a general cultural psychology in the present.1I am particularly attuned to those points of intersection that inform understanding of mind in culture and culture in mind. I focus on institutions as means for canonizing the ordinary, on narrative as a mode of positioning the extraordinary vis-à-vis mundane expectations, and on agency, …
Personal values as selective factors in perception
36 words were chosen to represent the 6 values of the Allport-Vernon Study. Length and familiarity of words were equated in each category. Each word was shown to each of 25 college students at exposures starting at .01 second and increasing until recognition occurred. Average recognition time was .065 sec. for words of the category in which a subject had the highest value score of the Allport-Vernon Study, and .097 sec. for the lowest value categ…
Vygotsky's zone of proximal development: The hidden agenda
What are the roles of consciousness and of collectivism in Vygotsky's theory
The Autobiographical Process
The social context of language acquisition
Perceptual Identification and Perceptual Organization
(1955). Perceptual Identification and Perceptual Organization. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 21-28
Narratives of aging
What is a Narrative Fact
This article explores the manner in which culturally prevalent narratives lead us not only to interpret facts in a particular way but also to generate those very facts through the acts we perform in consonance with these narratives
The growth of mind
Some determinants of the perception of positive and negative feelings in others
Models of the Learner
Topics, including the topics of keynote addresses to learned societies, have a hermeneutic history. The hermeneutic history of a topic, we are cautioned, must be taken into account if we are fully to interpret its meaning. The topic of my paper, Models of the Learner, is no exception. It has such a history and has a proximal origin in a set of exchanges-first as a conversation and then as the topic of a more formal learned discussion. Let me set …
Play, thought, and language
(1983). Play, thought, and language. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 60-69
A Note on the Informativeness of Parts of Words
The experiment reported in this paper was designed to determine which part of a printed word is most useful to a reader as a basis for recognition of the whole word. Versions of ninety common English nouns were prepared in which typographical reversals were inserted at the beginning, middle or end of the word. These were then presented in a tachistoscope to subjects who were asked to recognize the words. The results of the experiment showed that …
Compatriot and foreigner: A study of impression formation in three countries
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Familiarity of Letter Sequences and Tachistoscopic Identification
(1954). Familiarity of Letter Sequences and Tachistoscopic Identification. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 129-139
Fifty years of change in American psychology
Personality Under Social Catastrophe: Ninety Life-Histories of the Nazi Revolution
Shortwave Listening in an Italian Community
In Boston's Italian North End a polling study of a group of typical marginal Americans furnishes a clue to the motivation and behavior of the average shortwave listener. This project is one of a series of shortwave listening studies carried out by the Princeton Listening Center during the spring and summer of 1941. At the time this particular study was made, Dr. Bruner was a member of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He has sin…
OWI and the American Public
How well has OWI done its job? The answer to this question depends to a large extent upon the criteria used in appraising the Office. Dr. Bruner, using three significant criteria, undertakes to answer the question on the basis of existing public opinion data. The author is associate director of the Princeton University Office of Public Opinion Research. During 1941 he was in charge of the Italian section of the foreign broadcast intelligence serv…
How Much Post-War Migration
The present study is an attempt to assess the amount of post-war migration away from crowded industrial defense areas. Using the polling technique, it approaches the problem of migration by inquiring about people's expectations in the event that they lose their jobs after the war. Interviewing was conducted on a representative cross-section of the war labor force in eight major defense areas over the country. It was found that 36 per cent of the …
Public Opinion and America's Foreign Policy
F OREIGN policy, like all national policy, endures and is made vital by the consent of the governed. There was a time, not long ago, when foreign policy was only nominally the concern of the people. But a shrinking world is robbing the professional diplomatist of his exclusive domain. What the public thinks now and is likely to think in the future about America's relations with the world must be of the gravest concern to all. This paper has to do…
Mandate from the People
The Boss and the Vote: Case Study in City Politics
Recent Mayoralty Elections: The Boss and the Vote: Case Study in City Politics
Tension and Tension Release as Organizing Factors in Perception
Emotional Selectivity in Perception and Reaction
Resources for World‐Wide Research in the Human Sciences
International Research on Social Issues: A World Survey
Value and need as organizing factors in perception
Iv. Perceptual Theory and the Rorschach Test
Personal values as selective factors in perception
36 words were chosen to represent the 6 values of the Allport-Vernon Study. Length and familiarity of words were equated in each category. Each word was shown to each of 25 college students at exposures starting at .01 second and increasing until recognition occurred. Average recognition time was .065 sec. for words of the category in which a subject had the highest value score of the Allport-Vernon Study, and .097 sec. for the lowest value categ…
On the Perception of Incongruity: A Paradigm
Perception, Cognition, and Behavior
Public opinion and propaganda
Public Opinion and Policy-Making in the United States
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Appointments and Staff Changes
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Some determinants of the perception of positive and negative feelings in others
Some determinants of apparent size
Familiarity of Letter Sequences and Tachistoscopic Identification
(1954). Familiarity of Letter Sequences and Tachistoscopic Identification. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 129-139
Estimating the chance expectancies of diadic relationships within a group
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