Jerome Bruner

The British director Jonathan Miller once teased Jerome Bruner on the BBC for having rehabilitated what in the dark days of behaviorist psychology was a dirty four-letter word: m-i-n-d. Not far off the mark. In his long career, first as Professor of Psychology at Harvard and then as Watts Professor at Oxford, he has been at the forefront of what became, in the 1960s, the much heralded Cognitive Revolution that today dominates psychology around the world.