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Anna Abraham, PhD

 
E. Paul Torrance Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Director, Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development

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Mary Frances Early College of Education
University of Georgia (UGA)
Athens, GA, USA

 
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Email: annaabr[@]gmail.com | University Webpage: UGA | Profile: Google Scholar | Group: Creativity & Imagination Lab | ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4954-8205

Research Expertise:        Creativity, Imagination, Reality-Fiction Distinction, Mental Time Travel, Theory of Mind, Self-Referential Thought
Domains/Disciplines:     Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Clinical Neuroscience
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Social Neuroscience




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As the Founding Editor of the new Cambridge Elements in Creativity and Imagination, I am seeking short book contributions for this exciting new series at Cambridge University Press from all corners of the academic and practitioner community. If you are interested in authoring a short book for this series, contact me for more information. This is a rolling call. (WEBSITE)


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WHAT'S NEW?   
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Jun 2022: Interview - The Science of Creativity & Imagination - on the The FitMind Podcast. 

Jun 2022: Paper - Predictors of Creativity in Young People - now published in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts.  

May 2022: Speaker - The Basis of Creativity: Science and Myths - American Medical Writers Association New England Chapter (AMWA-NE). 

Apr 2022: Paper - How we tell apart fiction from reality - published in the American Journal of Psychology.

Apr 2022: Festival Director - 2022 TORRANCE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS 

Apr 2022: Speaker - Telling apart reality from fiction - Imagination & Moral Cognition Lab, Dept. of Psychology, SUNY Albany.

Apr 2022: Speaker - Telling apart reality from fiction - Honors Program Lunchbox Lectures, Morehead Honors College, University of Georgia.  

Mar 2022: Speaker - The Case for Cultivating Creative Health - at the session on  Interdisciplinary Creativity  at the Creative Brain Week.
(Update: VIDEO of full session now available online)

Mar 2022: Interview - Talking to a psychologist about creativity - on the The Blindboy Podcast. 

Mar 2022: Interview - Discussing Neuroscience and Creativity - on the Fueling Creativity Podcast (PART 1) (PART 2).
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Feb 2022: Featured Expert - Creativity for Creatives Q&A - at the Women's Health summit. 

Jan 2022: Grant - From AI Ethics to AI Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence and Aesthetic Harm - research team awarded the UGA Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant. PI: Aaron Meskin (Franklin College of Arts & Sciences); Co-Is: David Saltz, Isabelle Wallace and Katie Geha (Franklin College of Arts & Sciences), Anna Abraham (Mary Frances Early College of Education), and Pengyuan Wang, Rosanna Smith & Carolina Salge (Terry College of Business).  

Jan 2022: Paper - Creativity or creativities? Why context matters - advanced online publication in Design Studies.

Dec 2021: Interview source for a feature article  by Abigail Cuffy - Mold Your Mind to be Happier and Healthier - in Women's Health magazine.

Dec 2021: Speaker - Learning from Fiction - Art in Conversation seminar series (Seminar 20), University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.  
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Nov 2021: Chapter - The Role of Semantic versus Episodic Memory in Creative Cognition - accepted for publication in the Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition.

Nov 2021: Speaker & Discussant - What’s Your Curiosity? Exploring the psychological ideas of ‘Looking-Glass’, from perception and identity to the science of creativity - at the  V&A 'Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser' Friday Forum Symposium. The Victoria & Albert Museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.