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Finding just the right art for the issue was its own adventure. Deputy art director MARTI GOLON was looking for someone to paint Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget, for example, when she chanced on a portrait in an illustration annual. She knew the artist, ETIENNE DELESSERT, as a children's book illustrator and thought, "Wow, this is a perfect solution." She had no idea how perfect. Delessert not only knew Piaget but had worked with him. Delessert sent along a photo of the two collaborating on a book, which we couldn't resist reproducing here. You will find other remarkable...
...Jean Piaget, the pioneering Swiss philosopher and psychologist, spent much of his professional life listening to children, watching children and poring over reports of researchers around the world who were doing the same. He found, to put it most succinctly, that children don't think like grownups. After thousands of interactions with young people often barely old enough to talk, Piaget began to suspect that behind their cute and seemingly illogical utterances were thought processes that had their own kind of order and their own special logic. Einstein called it a discovery "so simple that only a genius could have...
...Piaget's insight opened a new window into the inner workings of the mind. By the end of a wide-ranging and remarkably prolific research career that spanned nearly 75 years--from his first scientific publication at age 10 to work still in progress when he died at 84--Piaget had developed several new fields of science: developmental psychology, cognitive theory and what came to be called genetic epistemology. Although not an educational reformer, he championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation for today's education-reform movements. It was a shift comparable to the displacement...
Bella DePaulo of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, who has done several studies on lying in everyday life, notes that no one is totally honest all the time. "The tendency to tell lies," as Jean Piaget wrote in 1932, "is a natural tendency, spontaneous and universal." One of DePaulo's studies, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that people told at least one lie a day, and that more socially adept folks stretched the truth more often than the less sophisticated. There's a reason the devil is always depicted as a smooth-tongued fellow...
...tradition; in Tel Aviv. As U.N. ambassador in 1975, Herzog during debate defiantly tore up the infamous resolution equating Zionism with racism. (Years later, it was repealed.) As President, the ex-general worked to broker rifts in coalition Cabinets, isolate some extremists and push for voting reforms. DIED. GERALD PIAGET, 79, style-conscious co-founder of the family watchmaking firm famed for its ultraslim, ultraexpensive timepieces for women; in Areuse, Switzerland...