Sherry Turkle received her Bachelors of Arts summa cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality Psychology from Harvard University.

Interviews and Profiles

Akiko Busch of I.D.: The International Design Magazine, speaks with Sherry Turkle "about one of contemporary culture's biggest crushes: the android." February 27, 2008.

"Really Thinking About Things," an interview with Prof. Turkle by Penelope Green in The New York Times (November 8, 2007, Home & Garden section, p. 1). 'Sherry Turkle, who has studied people's relationships with computers, has turned her focus to how people relate to common items.'

“Living online: I’ll have to ask my friends,” an interview with Prof. Turkle by Liz Else in New Scientist (20 September 2006).  ‘Instant messaging, Wi-Fi and cellphones allow us to be constantly plugged into our social networks.  Sociologist Sherry Turkle worries this is transforming human psychology.’ London, UK: Vol. 191 (2569), pp. 48-49.

"Technology and Human Vulnerability: A Conversation with MIT's Sherry Turkle," September 2003 issue of Harvard Business Review. Diane L. Coutu. Vol. 81(9), pp. 43-50.

Open Door, the MIT alumni online magazine. The interview with Sherry appeared in the July/August 2003 issue, which was devoted to People, Information, and Mediating Technologies.

"Discover Dialogue: Social Scientist Sherry Turkle a Psychologist in Cyberspace," Discover, Vol. 24 No. 6 (June 2003). This is an extended version, exclusive to the Discover web site, of the article that appeared in Discover magazine of April 2003.

"What Do You Mean, 'It's Just Like a Real Dog?'; As Robot Pets and Dolls Multiply, Children React in New Ways to Things That Are 'Almost Alive'." An article by Katie Hafner in the Circuits section of the New York Times that cites Professor Turkle's experiments and opinions. May 25, 2000.

"At the Heart of a Cyberstudy, the Human Essence," Interview with Sherry Turkle by Katie Hafner, The New York Times, June 18, 1998.

"An Ethnologist in Cyberspace," Profile of Sherry Turkle. Marguerite Holloway, Scientific American, April 1998.

"Sex, Lies and Avatars," Pamela McCorduck, Wired magazine, p.106-110 and 158-165, volume 4.04. 1996. "For Sherry Turkle, author of the provocative Life on the Screen --the first serious look at the multiple personalities we live in cyberspace-- we are experiencing that historical, liminal moment when the old has begun to die and the new has not yet arrived."