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Emotion theorist, child psychologist, and mastermind behind the reform of the French education system: these are some of the common ways to identify the work of physician, philosopher, and educator Henri Wallon (1879-1962). They are all correct, but also incomplete. “In fact, he is all of these things, but he is primarily a developmental psychologist,” says Laurinda Ramalho de Almeida, vice-coordinator of the Educational Psychology Program at PUC-SP.