IQ expert to address creativity on April 29 at OSU

Friday, April 17, 2009

Social sciences lecture is free and open to the public.
 
(April 17, 2009, STILLWATER, Okla.) – Robert Sternberg, director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise (PACE) at Tufts University, will deliver a lecture on creativity at 7 p.m. on April 29 in Room 106 of the Noble Research Center at Oklahoma State University.
 
Sternberg’s lecture, titled “Creativity is a Decision,” will complement his most recent publications, Defying The Crowd: Cultivating Creativity in a Culture of Conformity and Creativity: From Potential to Realization.
 
“Dr. Sternberg is recognized as one of the foremost experts on intelligence and creativity,” said Melanie Page, associate professor of psychology at OSU.
 
“The audience will have an amazing opportunity to hear one of the top 10 psychological researchers in the world,” said Page. “Given OSU’s focus on creativity, we are especially excited to have him discuss his work on becoming more creative.”
 
Sternberg is a psychology professor and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tufts. Prior to Tufts, he was at Yale University where he served as the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education, and a professor of management. He also was the director of the PACE Center, which is now based at Tufts.
 
The PACE Center is dedicated to the advancement of theory, research, practice, and public policy that advances intelligence as modifiable and capable. “The goal of PACE is to promote that IQ is not something that one is simply born with, but that we can develop IQ throughout our lives,” said Page.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Following the lecture, the OSU Creativity Initiative and the OSU Psychology Graduate Students Association will host a reception.
 
To learn more, phone (405) 744-6028 or visit http://psychology.okstate.edu . The lecture is hosted by the OSU Department of Psychology and is funded by the OSU Arts and Sciences Social Science Lecture Series.