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According to Wikipedia, Jerome Seymour Bruner was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a BA in 1937 from Duke University and a PhD from Harvard University in 1941. He taught and did research at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and New York University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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Acts of meaning (1990) (10754)
Actual minds, possible worlds (1985) (8893)
The role of tutoring in problem solving. (1976) (8147)
The Narrative Construction of Reality (1991) (4137)
A Study of Thinking (1956) (3392)
Life as Narrative (2014) (2760)
The Process of Education (1960) (2752)
Toward a Theory of Instruction (1966) (2522)
The Culture of Education (1996) (2241)
Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language (1985) (2165)
On perceptual readiness. (1957) (2101)
The act of discovery. (1961) (2002)
Studies In Cognitive Growth (1966) (1462)
The ontogenesis of speech acts (1975) (1384)
Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life (2002) (1213)
Value and need as organizing factors in perception. (1947) (1093)
The capacity for joint visual attention in the infant (1975) (1062)
The course of cognitive growth. (1964) (1061)
The achievement and antecedents of labelling (1978) (1034)
From communication to language—a psychological perspective (1975) (1003)
Nature and uses of immaturity. (1972) (819)
Cultural learning. Author's reply (1993) (745)
Going Beyond the Information Given (2006) (712)
Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution (1976) (614)
Beyond the Information Given: Studies in the Psychology of Knowing (1973) (614)
THE PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE (1954) (576)
Opinions and Personality. (1956) (552)
On the perception of incongruity; a paradigm. (1949) (549)
Making sense: The child's construction of the world (1987) (456)
Organization of early skilled action. (1973) (440)
Cultural Differences and Inferences About Psychological Processes. (1971) (429)
Self-making and world-making (1991) (416)
Beyond the Information Given (1973) (406)
Personal values as selective factors in perception. (1948) (402)
On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (1963) (389)
The social context of language acquisition (1981) (374)
Opinions and personality (1957) (342)
Games, social exchange and the acquisition of language (1978) (325)
On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand. (1965) (311)
The relevance of education (1971) (300)
Emotional selectivity in perception and reaction. (1947) (283)
Interference in Visual Recognition (1964) (244)
The "remembered" self. (1994) (239)
Personality dynamics and the process of perceiving. (1951) (237)
Contemporary approaches to cognition (1958) (233)
The growth of mind. (1965) (223)
Minding the Law (2000) (222)
How adults and children search and recognize pictures. (1970) (216)
The Growth of Competence (1974) (207)
Familiarity of Letter Sequences and Tachistoscopic Identification (1954) (207)
Models of the Learner (1985) (202)
Culture and Human Development: A New Look (1990) (201)
Culture and Cognitive Growth (1966) (191)
Symbolic value as an organizing factor in perception. (1948) (185)
The Autobiographical Process (1993) (183)
Vygotsky's zone of proximal development: The hidden agenda (1984) (178)
A Narrative Model of Self‐Construction (1997) (174)
Perception, cognition, and behavior. (1949) (172)
The essential Vygotsky (2004) (170)
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database (2003) (167)
Play, thought and language (1986) (167)
Learning through experience and learning through media (1973) (166)
The Social foundations of language and thought : essays in honor of Jerome S. Bruner (1980) (163)
Processes of cognitive growth: infancy (1968) (162)
A Note on the Informativeness of Parts of Words (1958) (158)
Expectation and the perception of color. (1951) (154)
Celebrating Divergence: Piaget and Vygotsky (1997) (149)
Perception under stress. (1948) (146)
The Narrative Creation of Self. (2004) (129)
Studies in cognitive growth : a collaboration at the Center for Cognitive Studies (1966) (128)
In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography (1983) (127)
Breadth of learning as a function of drive level and mechanization. (1955) (125)
Under Five In Britain (1980) (124)
Visually Preadapted Constituents of Manipulatory Action (1972) (119)
Perceptual Identification and Perceptual Organization (1955) (113)
The conditions of creativity. (1962) (110)
The PROCESS of EDUCATION Revisited. (1971) (108)
The Role of Interaction Formats in Language Acquisition (1985) (107)
Tension and tension release as organizing factors in perception. (1947) (101)
The Coordination of Visual Observation and Instrumental Behavior in Early Infancy (1973) (95)
Narrative and metanarrative in the construction of Self. (1998) (95)
On Voluntary Action and its Hierarchical Structure (1968) (88)
Frames for thinking: Ways of making meaning. (1996) (84)
Cognitive risk and environmental change. (1961) (83)
Another look at New Look I. (1992) (76)
Prologue to the English Edition (2009) (70)
Culture and Mind: Their Fruitful Incommensurability (2008) (69)
Narratives of aging (1999) (69)
The Process of Education: Revised Edition (2009) (68)
Some determinants of the perception of positive and negative feelings in others. (1953) (67)
Public opinion and propaganda. (1949) (59)
Remembering our past: Group narrative as a cultural context of autobiography (1996) (59)
Folk Psychology and Folk Pedagogy (2018) (58)
Some determinants of apparent size. (1953) (55)
Plot, Plight, and Dramatism: Interpretation at Three Ages (1993) (55)
A short history of psychological theories of learning (2004) (55)
Learning to use a lever. (1972) (55)
Development of equivalence transformations in children. (1963) (54)
Education as Social Invention (1964) (52)
Some Elements of Discovery (1981) (52)
In search of pedagogy : the selected works of Jerome S. Bruner (2006) (50)
Representation and Mathematics Learning (1965) (49)
Neural mechanisms in perception. (1957) (49)
In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978 (2006) (46)
IV. PERCEPTUAL THEORY AND THE RORSCHACH TEST (1948) (46)
An approach to social perception. (1948) (46)
Symbols and texts as tools of intellect (1977) (44)
A Cognitive Theory of Personality. (1956) (43)
The Identification of Recurrent Regularity (1959) (43)
The cognitive consequences of early sensory deprivation. (1959) (43)
Interaction in Human Development (2014) (43)
NARRATIVES OF HUMAN PLIGHT: A CONVERSATION WITH JEROME BRUNER (2004) (43)
Fifty years of change in American psychology. (1940) (42)
Poverty and Childhood (1975) (42)
What is a Narrative Fact? (1998) (41)
What psychology should study (2012) (40)
Learning and thinking. (1959) (40)
Actual Minds, Possible World (1988) (39)
Compatriot and foreigner: a study of impression formation in three countries. (1957) (39)
Inhelder and Piaget's The Growth of Logical Thinking. I. A psychologist's viewpoint. (1959) (38)
Research Currents: Life as Narrative. (1988) (37)
Do we “acquire” culture or vice versa? (1993) (36)
Labov and Waletzky Thirty Years On (1997) (35)
Culture, mind and education (2018) (35)
The role of overlearning and drive level in reversal learning. (1958) (34)
Interaction, communication, and self. (1984) (33)
The Developing Child Series (1979) (33)
Human growth and development (1978) (32)
Perception and personality : a symposium (1950) (32)
Multiplicity of set as a determinant of perceptual behavior. (1949) (31)
Mandate from the people (1945) (31)
Routes to reference (1998) (31)
The Uses of Immaturity. (1972) (31)
The process of education : a searching discussion of school education opening new paths to leaning and teaching (1963) (31)
Berlyne Memorial Lecture Acquiring the uses of language. (1978) (30)
Learning about learning : a conference report (1966) (26)
Expectancy in apparent visual movement. (1954) (26)
Same Theorems on Instruction Illustrated with Reference to Mathematics (1964) (26)
Narratives of science (2004) (26)
Pacifier-produced visual buffering in human infants. (1973) (25)
THE WILL TO LEARN (2006) (25)
Science education and teachers: A Karplus lecture (1992) (24)
What we have learned about early learning (1996) (23)
One kind of perception: a reply to Professor Luchins. (1951) (23)
Play, thought, and language (1983) (22)
The Skill of Relevance or the Relevance of Skills. (1970) (22)
THE PERCEPTION OF ERROR (1951) (22)
Metaphors of consciousness and cognition in the history of psychology. (1990) (22)
Assimilation in the immediate reproduction of visually perceived figures. (1952) (21)
Making Sense (Routledge Revivals) : The Child's Construction of the World (2010) (21)
The Organization of Action and the Nature of Adult-Infant Transaction (2013) (21)
The Cognitive Consequences of Early Sensory Deprivation (1959) (20)
A note on the measurement of reversals of perspective (1950) (20)
The View from the Heart's Eye: A Commentary (1994) (19)
Freud and the image of man. (1956) (18)
Culture, Politics, and Pedagogy. (1972) (17)
The Effect of Electric Shock upon Subsequent Learning in the Rat (1939) (17)
Discriminative skill and discriminative matching in perceptual recognition. (1955) (17)
Personality Under Social Catastrophe: Ninety Life-Histories of the Nazi Revolution (2011) (14)
Reflecting on Russian consciousness (1995) (14)
The Transparency of Interpersonal Choice (1955) (13)
Constructivism ( learning theory ) (2011) (13)
Contemporary approaches to cognition : a symposium held at the University of Colorado (1968) (13)
WIDTH OF CATEGORY AND CONCEPT DIFFERENTIATION: A REJOINDER. (1965) (12)
MAN: A COURSE OF STUDY (2006) (12)
The Transactional Self (2010) (12)
Hypothesis and the Principle of Closure: The Effect of Frequency and Recency (1952) (11)
Loyal opposition and the clarity of dissent commentary on Donald P. Spence's “the hermeneutic turn” (1993) (11)
Infant sucking in response to variations in schedules of feeding reinforcement. (1972) (11)
The New Educational Technology (1962) (11)
The dimensions of propaganda: German short-wave broadcasts to America (1941) (10)
Neural mechanisms in perception. (1957) (10)
The Independence and Task-Specificity of Language (2014) (10)
The Boss and the Vote: Case Study in City Politics (1946) (9)
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Toward a Theory of Instruction (1966) (9)
The Reality of Fiction (2006) (9)
Notes on the cognitive revolution (1984) (8)
Will cognitive revolutions ever stop (1997) (8)
Directional Information and Apparent Movement* (1956) (8)
ESTIMATING THE CHANCE EXPECTANCIES OF DIADIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN A GROUP (1955) (8)
Early Childhood Education: Preliminaries to a Theory of Cultural Differences. (1972) (8)
Studies in Cognitive Growth. (1968) (7)
The process of concept attainment (2017) (7)
Narrative learning and culture (2006) (7)
The Role of the Researcher as an Adviser to the Educational Policy Maker (1975) (7)
SHORTWAVE LISTENING IN AN ITALIAN COMMUNITY (1941) (7)
8 – PSYCHOLOGY, MORALITY, AND THE LAW1 (1992) (6)
Narrative, Culture, and Psychology (2013) (6)
A group research project on the dynamics and measurement of opinion. (1947) (6)
The relation between breadth of category and decision time. (1966) (6)
Growing into rules (2010) (6)
The reliability of constant errors in psychophysical measurement. (1946) (6)
Cultivating the possible: a tribute to Harry Judge (2008) (5)
WIDTH OF CATEGORY AND CONCEPT DIFFERENTIATION: A NOTE OF SOME COMMENTS BY GARDNER AND SCHOEN. (1965) (5)
The strategy of terror: audience response to Blitzkrieg im Westen. (1941) (4)
The Mind According to Bruner@@@Actual Minds, Possible Worlds@@@Acts of Meaning (1992) (4)
On the Continuity of Learning. (2019) (4)
Estimating the chance expectancies of di-adic relationships within a group. (1955) (4)
The effect of thymus extract on the sexual behavior of the female rat. Preliminary report. (1939) (4)
Mechanism riding high. (1957) (4)
The uneasy relation of culture and mind (2015) (4)
Homo sapiens, a localized species (2005) (4)
INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF THINKING (1960) (4)
Sequential probability as a determinant of perceptual closure. (1958) (4)
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective; On Learning Mathematics. (1995) (4)
The Origins of Inference (2010) (4)
OWI AND THE AMERICAN PUBLIC (1943) (4)
Educating a Sense of the possible (2005) (4)
A Brain on the Mind. (1982) (3)
RECENT MAYORALTY ELECTIONS THE BOSS AND THE VOTE: Case Study in City Politics (1946) (3)
Comment on “beyond competence” (1997) (3)
Chapter VI: Narrative and Paradigmatic Modes of Thought (1985) (3)
Combining Empirical and Explanation-based Learning. Section of Incremental Version Space Merging: a General Framework for Concept (1992) (3)
Commentary: Cultivating the Possible (2012) (3)
"The Cognitive Revolution in Children's Understanding of Mind" (Commentary On). (1995) (3)
Chapter 3. The narrative construction of reality (2003) (3)
Narrative and Law (2017) (3)
4. James’s Varieties and the “New” Constructivism (2004) (3)
The Growth of competence : proceedings of a D.S.T. study group on "The growth of competence" held jointly with the Ciba Foundation, London, January 1972, being the sixth study group in a programme on "The origins of human behaviour" (1974) (3)
Human infancy and the beginnings of human competence. (2001) (2)
Clark Lecture in 1968 “Processes of Cognitive Growth: Infancy” (2015) (2)
Patterns of Growth (2018) (2)
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. (2010) (2)
The Legal and the Literary (2008) (2)
READINESS FOR LEARNING (2006) (2)
Public Opinion and America's Foreign Policy (1944) (2)
Fundamentals of Psychology: The Psychology of Thinking (1961) (2)
Contemporary Approaches to Cognition.@@@A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. (1958) (2)
Review of Radio's Second Chance. (1946) (2)
Peasants to tractor drivers (1977) (2)
Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution@@@Ritual, Play and Performance (1978) (2)
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. (2016) (1)
On attributes and concepts (2017) (1)
Integrated therapy for aphasia: Application in Fluent Aphasia (2010) (1)
From the 1960s: On Learning Mathematics (2006) (1)
EDITORIAL: The Process of Education (1965) (1)
Dare to Care/Dare to Act: Racism and Education. (1971) (1)
Fie on Methodological Quarrels (1976) (1)
On searching for Bruner (1992) (1)
Starting with an open mind (1974) (1)
Social psychology and group processes. (1950) (1)
Man: A Course of Study. Occasional Paper No. 3. (1965) (1)
CHILD WORK AND CHILD LABOUR IN NIGERIA : CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATION GENESIS OF INTEREST IN CHILD (1)
Language and experience (2010) (1)
International Research on Social Issues: A World Survey (1947) (1)
Tributes to Howard E. Gruber (2003) (1)
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. (2015) (1)
How Much Post-War Migration? (1943) (1)
Comment on “Effect of Overtraining on Subsequent Learning of Incidental CUES” (1957) (1)
A World of Babies: Foreword (2000) (1)
Preliminaries to a Theory of Cultural Differences (1972) (1)
THE FUNCTIONS OF TEACHING (2006) (1)
Perceptual Organisation and the Process of Identification and Differentiation: The Child’s ‘Syncretism’ (2018) (0)
NURTURING THE GIFTED CHILD OR DEVELOPING TALENT? RESOLVING A PARADOX (2013) (0)
Too Good to Miss (1982) (0)
From disposition to context (1982) (0)
Identity Criteria of Equivalence and Difference (2018) (0)
National Standards for American Education: A Symposium Participants (1989) (0)
Law School 1-1-2001 Making the Familiar Conventional again (2019) (0)
1978. Contents of Volume 4 (2016) (0)
Resources for World‐Wide Research in the Human Sciences (1947) (0)
The economy of perceiving (1959) (0)
Review of Minor mental maladjustments in normal people. (1940) (0)
Intrafigural Spatial Relationships (2018) (0)
World Library of Educationalists series (2006) (0)
Thinking; *Debate; Higher Education; Instructional Effectiveness; *Persuasive Discourse; *Social Influences (1998) (0)
Peer Influences on Cognitive Development: Piagetian and Vygotskian Perspectives (2014) (0)
Bruner, Jerome, "Narrative and Paradigmatic Modes of Thought," pp. 97-115 in Elliot W. Eisner, ed., Learning and Teaching the Ways of Knowing, 84th Yearbook of the NSSE, Part II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. (1985) (0)
The president and the children 1 (1972) (0)
Review of The biology of human conflict, The psychology of human conflict and Fulcra of conflict. (1941) (0)
The Emergence of Differentiators (2018) (0)
What should psychology study, and why? (2010) (0)
Review of Political Propaganda. (1941) (0)
Psychomotor education , an aspect of general formation of the pre-school children (2013) (0)
Freud and the image of man (1956). (1997) (0)
Review of Conscious orientation. (1940) (0)
Review of Radio goes to war and Radio in wartime. (1943) (0)
On categorizing with probabilistic cues (2017) (0)
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
An Examination of Some Parameters of Visuo-Motor Exploration (2018) (0)
How children learn TUTOR RESOURCE PACK (2010) (0)
Jean piaget theory in punjabi pdf (2020) (0)
FROM EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS DOCUMENT RESUME UD (2007) (0)
Review of Theory and problems of social psychology. (1949) (0)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS History as story: Books for the social studies (2016) (0)
Foreword by Jerôme Bruner (2009) (0)
The Growth of Mind. Occasional Paper No. 8. (1966) (0)
Both Human and HumaneThe Process of EducationThe Creative Arts in American Education (1961) (0)
Contents, Vol. 33, 1990 (1990) (0)
The Perception of form Orientation (2018) (0)
Book review: Eysenck's inequality of man (1974) (0)
Both Human and Humane (1961) (0)
Public Opinion and World Order. (1945) (0)
A new alignment of disciplines (1968) (0)
Twelve Hundred Seventeenth Street. (1965) (0)
Going heyond the Dafa : Evidence and Inference in Voting (2011) (0)
直観・創造・学習 (1969) (0)
The Role of Perceptual Activity in the Genesis of Representational Structures (2018) (0)
Book Review: Contemporary Approaches to Creative Thinking (1963) (0)
Review of Radio research 1941. (1943) (0)
MONOGRAPHS IN PSYCHOLOGY AN INTERNATIONAL SERIES (1972) (0)
A Reappraisal of Economic Development : Perspectives for Cooperative Research (2017) (0)
Review of Social psychology at the crossroads. (1952) (0)
Reception strategies in concept attainment (2017) (0)
The Evolution of Perceptual Structures (2018) (0)
Occasional Paper No . 8 The Growth qf Mind (2007) (0)
means of imprc;ing the power of communication (1992) (0)
On disjunctive concepts and their attainment (2017) (0)
Getting from Here to There (2008) (0)
Interdisciplinar y Approach; *Language Acquisition; *Writing (2001) (0)
Occasional Paper No . 8 The Growth qf Mind (2007) (0)
A SCIENTIFIC EVENING WITH P. FEYERABEND, (2018) (0)
The Spatial Relationships between Structures in Three-Dimensional Space (2018) (0)
The Role of Verbal Mediators in Discrimination Learning (2018) (0)
Public Opinion and Policy-Making in the United States (1950) (0)
Postcards from “A World Made Possible”: Excerpts from Virtual Conversations (2007) (0)
Book Review: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (1963) (0)
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. (2017) (0)

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