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The Science of Creativity

In this talk, we will review the scientific research on creativity, focusing on the creative process, creative personalities as well as creative products and environments. We will highlight differences and commonalities of creativity in different domains, such as scientific vs. artistic creativity. We will also discuss how to foster creativity on a personal as well as a societal level. Finally, we will address popular (mis)conceptions about creativity, for instance, the relationship between creativity and mental illness or between creativity and intelligence.
About The Speaker
Pascal Wallisch serves as a clinical associate professor of psychology at New York University, where he heads the Fox lab. He was the first one in his family to go to college. While in college – at the Free University of Berlin, he became a scholar of the German National Merit Foundation. He attended grad school at the University of Chicago, where he wrote a bestselling book on scientific programming in neuroscience and won a university-wide grad student teaching award as well as the first Eagleman Prize in Mathematics and Physics. He did postdocs at NYU CNS, and after joining the faculty in the Department of Psychology at NYU, he won the “Golden Dozen” award for excellence in teaching. Pascal has published on a wide range of topics, including neural response properties, dresses, movie ratings, cognitive diversity, color vision, and music.
Join us on Thursday, June 25 at 9:00 PM EDT via Zoom
(download the app for easy access).
This event is on a “pay what you want” basis.










When: Thu., Jun. 25, 2020 at 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm
In this talk, we will review the scientific research on creativity, focusing on the creative process, creative personalities as well as creative products and environments. We will highlight differences and commonalities of creativity in different domains, such as scientific vs. artistic creativity. We will also discuss how to foster creativity on a personal as well as a societal level. Finally, we will address popular (mis)conceptions about creativity, for instance, the relationship between creativity and mental illness or between creativity and intelligence.
About The Speaker
Pascal Wallisch serves as a clinical associate professor of psychology at New York University, where he heads the Fox lab. He was the first one in his family to go to college. While in college – at the Free University of Berlin, he became a scholar of the German National Merit Foundation. He attended grad school at the University of Chicago, where he wrote a bestselling book on scientific programming in neuroscience and won a university-wide grad student teaching award as well as the first Eagleman Prize in Mathematics and Physics. He did postdocs at NYU CNS, and after joining the faculty in the Department of Psychology at NYU, he won the “Golden Dozen” award for excellence in teaching. Pascal has published on a wide range of topics, including neural response properties, dresses, movie ratings, cognitive diversity, color vision, and music.
Join us on Thursday, June 25 at 9:00 PM EDT via Zoom
(download the app for easy access).
This event is on a “pay what you want” basis.
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