Ellen Winner

{{Short description|Psychologist}}

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| education = Radcliffe College
Harvard University

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Ellen Winner is a psychologist and a professor at Boston College.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/books/review/awkward-ty-tashiro-if-i-understood-you-alan-alda.html|title=Two New Books Offer Advice for the Socially Awkward|last=Menaker|first=Daniel|date=2017-06-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-05|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} She specializes in psychology of art.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-we-know-about-art-and-the-mind|title=What We Know About Art and the Mind|last=Bloom|first=Paul|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2018-09-06|access-date=2019-04-05|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}

Winner graduated from the Putney School in 1965{{Cite web|last=Cuerdon|first=Don|date=Fall 2015|title=Putney Post|url=https://issuu.com/doncuerdon/docs/fall2015putneypost/22|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-15|website=Putney Post|page=23|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901025143/https://issuu.com/doncuerdon/docs/fall2015putneypost/22 |archive-date=2021-09-01 }} and received a PhD in developmental psychology from Harvard University in 1978.{{Cite web|url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/04/harvard-researcher-on-psychology-of-art/|title=Harvard researcher on psychology of art|date=2019-04-02|website=Harvard Gazette|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-05}} She collaborated on Project Zero to conduct studies about the way people experience and perceive art.{{Cite web|url=http://bcheights.com/2019/02/12/winner-art-psychology-harvard/|title=BC's Winner Speaks on Art and Psychology at Harvard Bookstore|date=2019-02-12|website=The Heights|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-05}} Winner noted how psychological explorations beginning in the realm of philosophy pertained to art.

From 1995 to 96, Winner served as president of the American Psychological Association Division 10.{{cite web |title=History of Division 10 |url=http://www.div10.org/history-division-10/ |website=div10.org |accessdate=April 5, 2019}} In 2000, Winner was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts.{{cite web |title=Awards & Recognitions |url=http://www.div10.org/awards/ |website=div10.org |accessdate=April 5, 2019}}