Iris Berent

Professor of Psychology , Northeastern University, Boston

Iris Berent is professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston. She is the author of The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Written by Iris Berent

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Our innate ideas prevent us seeing what is innate in human nature

We have a great deal of trouble telling what is innate and what is learned in human nature, whether ideas or emotions

by Iris Berent