Mark Runco: The Psychology of Creativity, Assessment, and Creative Potential
The Science of Creativity
Dr. Mark Runco is a professor and is the Director of Creativity Research and Programming at Southern Oregon University. Over 35 years ago, he founded an influential scientific journal called The Creativity Research Journal and he was the editor of that journal until 2020. He’s published books that are widely read by creativity researchers such as his college textbook, Creativity: Research, Development, and Practice (three editions), The Creativity Research Handbook (1997, 2011, 2012), and the very first Encyclopedia of Creativity in 1999. He’s known for his studies of core topics in...
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Steve Heller: Teaching Graphic Design
The Science of Creativity
Steve Heller is arguably the world’s best-known design educator, with over 200 books on graphic design, illustration, and political art. I interviewed him for my 2025 book . His books include ; ; and (with Marshall Arisman). He’s spent most of his career at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he’s now the Special Assistant to the President and the Co-Founder and Co-Chair Emeritus of the MFA Design Department. He’s won numerous awards including Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Mind Award; Smithsonian Design Museum; National Endowment for the Arts; AIGA Medal...
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Learning to See: Inside the World's Leading Art and Design Schools
The Science of Creativity
The much-anticipated art and design book was just published by MIT Press! In this episode, author Keith Sawyer talks with Amy Climer about his new book. Learning to See is an engaging and profound account of how professional artists and designers create and how they teach others to do it. Keith spent over ten years interviewing a hundred professors who’ve taught in 50 different colleges, universities, and institutes. He also interviewed students to learn about the personal transformation they go through as they learn to see and think like successful creative professionals. Learning to...
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The 2025 Creativity Conference, episode 2: Cutting-Edge Research from Top Psychologists
The Science of Creativity
We're going to leave the podcast studio and travel to Yale University for the 2025 creativity research conference! This is the second of two episodes bringing you cutting-edge research from the conference. This episode has five interviews with leading-edge creativity researchers. There were over two hundred researchers at Yale, from around the world, including Japan, India, Europe, and South America. This is the official American Psychological Association creativity research conference. In this episode, you'll hear about research that is SO NEW that it hasn't even been published yet. Top...
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The 2025 Creativity Conference: Cutting-Edge Research from Top Psychologists
The Science of Creativity
We're going to leave the podcast studio and travel to Yale University for the 2025 creativity research conference! This episode has six interviews with leading-edge creativity researchers and the next episode has five more. There were over two hundred researchers at Yale, from around the world, including Japan, India, Europe, and South America. This is the official American Psychological Association creativity research conference. In this episode, you'll hear about research that is SO NEW that it hasn't even been published yet. Top creativity researchers attend this conference each year so...
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Leidy Klotz: Creativity Through Subtraction
The Science of Creativity
Dr. Leidy Klotz is a professor at the University of Virginia, and the author of the book . In this episode, we talk about how his research contributes to our understanding of how to approach and solve problems and how to change and innovate. This is an insightful conversation between two psychologists who really love to study how people think and act! Dr. Klotz's research is about so much more than creativity, but his research is linked to a lot of creativity topics, including editing during the process, architectural design, and education. Please take a look at Dr. Leidy Klotz’s book, which...
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Amy Climer: Deliberate Creative Teams
The Science of Creativity
Dr. Amy Climer is a thought leader in creativity and innovation. She argues that creativity emerges from a deliberate process. Creativity can be learned, practiced, and repeated. Researchers have discovered a lot about how to teach this effectively, and this is the theme of her new book, . In Dr. Climer's view, creativity is an intentional, structured process. For over 20 years, she’s been facilitating creativity workshops with teams and organizations. She helps companies learn how to foster an innovative culture through her company . She’s the developer of the Deliberate CreativeⓇ Team...
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Yoed Kenett: The Associations of the Creative Mind
The Science of Creativity
Dr. Yoed Kenett studies the types of thinking and knowledge that support creativity. His research helps us understand the core mental processes of creativity, including associative thinking and question formulation. In this episode, we talk about the practical implications of his research and we show how that research can be used to enhance your creativity. He’s done research at the Hebrew University at Jerusalem; Bar-Ilan University; Brown University; and the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2020, he’s been a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the at The Technion: Israel...
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Adam Galinsky: How to Be a Creative Leader
The Science of Creativity
How can leaders foster creativity in their teams? How can you inspire people to reach their potential? Today's guest, Dr. Adam Galinsky, has spent decades studying these questions, doing research in social psychology, leadership, and organizational behavior. His latest book, , gives research-based advice for how to increase motivation, creativity, and collaboration. These are important skills for leaders but also for everyone in their daily lives. Adam is also the co-author of . Adam Galinsky is a professor at Columbia Business School. For more information: Music by license from...
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Dr. Robert Sternberg: The psychology of wisdom, love, and creativity
The Science of Creativity
Dr. Robert Sternberg, a professor of psychology at Cornell University, is one of the best-known psychologists in the United States. He’s done groundbreaking research on the most important issues in psychology, including scientific studies of wisdom, love, hate, leadership, and of course, creativity. Dr. Sternberg is known for reforming college admissions requirements to include measures of creativity, which he did while a dean at both Tufts University and at Oklahoma State University. He’s published literally thousands of books and scientific articles and his research has been cited by...
info_outlineMonopoly is the bestselling boardgame of all time. In this episode you’ll learn how Monopoly was invented. Until the truth came out, in the 1970s, we used to believe that a man named Charles Darrow created the game in 1934 in a burst of genius. But some dedicated sleuths discovered the real invention story. It’s a fascinating story about the power of collaboration and social networks. You’ll hear about the battle against Capitalism, the Supreme Court, Quakers, a political campaign—this story has it all! Monopoly emerged over a 30-year period, with creative contributions by hundreds of people. Each person contributed a small spark of creativity along the way. The story of Monopoly demonstrates the power of collaboration to drive creativity.
(0:00) The Myth
(00:26) Introduction
(00:51) The Success
(1:57) Anti-Monopoly
(4:49) Charles Darrow
(9:01) The Single Tax
(10:23) The Quakers
(13:39) Professors and Fraternities
(15:06) Atlantic City
(18:10) The Supreme Court
(20:02) The Collaborative Web
(23:55) Closer
(24:22) Outro
Copyright (c) 2024 Keith Sawyer
SOURCES:
- Keith Sawyer, Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration
- Ralph Anspach, The Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle
- Philip Orbanes, Monopoly: The World’s Most Famous Game and How It Got that Way
- Mary Pilon, “How a fight over a boardgame monopolized an economist’s life." Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2009
- Gavin Edwards, "Overlooked no more: Lizzie Magie, the unknown inventor behind Monopoly." New York Times
- Tim Walsh, Timeless toys: Classic toys and the playmakers who created them
Music by license from Soundstripe (in order of appearance):
- "Miss Missy" by AFTERNOONZ
- "Uptown Lovers" by AFTERNOONZ
- "At The Get Down" by Matt Wigton
- "What's The Big Deal" by Ryan Saranich