Encore: How children’s amazing brains shaped humanity, with Alison Gopnik, PhD
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Speaking of Psychology is taking a one-week summer break, so we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from the past year. In which we talked to University of California, Berkeley psychologist Alison Gopnik about how children’s brains are optimized to explore the world and the implications that this has for human evolution. Listener Survey - https://www.apa.org/podcastsurvey
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