Jean Piaget (1896-1980) always considered himself a natural scientist, not a psychologist. As a boy he quickly gave up play and pretend to take refuge in "work" -- exploring internal combustion ...

IT is late afternoon, but the four-year-old insists: “It can’t be. I haven’t had my nap.” Such is the mind of the child, by most indications illogical and full of nonsense. Not so, says Jean Piaget, a ...

The late Jean Piaget, a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher, was best known for studies that led to what is now known as the cognitive development theory. Piaget theorised that a child's ...

Claudia Hammond revisits Jean Piaget's Swiss Mountain experiment to ask whether the conclusions concerning young children's essential egocentrism are accurate. Show more We have to thank the Swiss ...