Philippe RochatProfessor

Biography

Dr. Rochat received his PhD from the University of Geneva in 1984, and studied infants as a pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellow at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. He moved from a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to join the Emory faculty in 1991. A 2006-2007 John Simon Guggenheim fellow, he has written over one hundred scholarly articles and is the single author of five books, as well as the editor or co-editor of three books.

Research

Research Interests

Vision and motor control in infancy: postural support, eye-hand coordination, intermodal perception, and general competence.

Research Areas

What is the nature and origins of human self-conscious psychology? Driven by this question, the main focus of Dr. Rochat’s research in the Emory Infant and Child Lab is on the early sense of self, emerging self-concept, the development of social cognition and relatedness, and the emergence of a moral sense during the preschool years in children from all over the world growing up in different cultural environments and socio-economic circumstances.