Paul L. HARRIS (1946) este psiholog, interesat de dezvoltarea cognitiei, emotii si imaginatie. Dupa ce a studiat psihologia la Sussex University si University of Oxford, a predat la University of Lancaster, Free University of Amsterdam si London School of Economics. In 1980 a devenit profesor de psihologia dezvoltarii si fellow al St John’s College din Oxford, iar din 2001 preda la Harvard. Este membru al Academiei Britanice si al Academiei Americane de Arte si Stiinte. A mai publicat Children and Emotion: The Development of Psychological Understanding (1989), Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others (2012) si Children’s Imagination (2022).