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Susan Hespos

Susan J. Hespos is an American developmental psychologist serving as the professor of infant studies and leader of BabyLab in the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, as well as the School of Education at Western Sydney University.

Hespos's research shows that babies think before they speak. Her work provides the earliest evidence of cognitive abilities in infants and illustrates how early thinking establishes the foundation for adult reasoning. She has used a range of methods and has studied individuals of various ages and cultures. She advocates for a theoretical perspective known as core knowledge, which asserts that beneath the differences among humans lies a set of perceptual and conceptual capacities that are shared.

Hespos has served as Associate Editor for ''Developmental Psychology'' (2016 – 2020), Associate Editor for ''Cognitive Psychology'' (2022 – 2024), and a member of the editorial board of ''Psychological Science'' (since 2020). Provided by Wikipedia