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SCOTT BARRY KAUFMAN

Scott Barry Kaufman is scientific director of the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He conducts research on the measurement and development of imagination, creativity, and play, and teaches the popular undergraduate course Introduction to Positive Psychology. Kaufman is author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined and co-author of the upcoming book Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind (with Carolyn Gregoire). He is also host of The Psychology Podcast, co-founder of The Creativity Post, and he writes the blog Beautiful Minds for Scientific American. Kaufman completed his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Yale University in 2009 and received his masters degree in experimental psychology from Cambridge University in 2005, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

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KEYNOTE SESSION: Messy Minds: The Truth about Creativity

 

The latest science of creativity suggests that creative people have messy minds— they mix and match seemingly contradictory emotions, skills, and behaviors to produce something novel and useful to society. In this talk, Scott Barry Kaufman takes us on a tour of the latest behavioral and biological research on the creative mind and makes the case for why we should encourage and value the messiness of the creative process.

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