Seminar

Tuesday, December 3, 2013 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Creative cognition in social innovation

Abstract

Human creativity operates in many domains, including scientific discovery, technological invention, artistic imagination, and social innovation. Creativity requires cognitive processes such as combining ideas, generating hypotheses, and using analogies. It also requires social processes such as exchanging ideas and transferring emotional evaluations.