Greg Hochmuth: Staring at the internet

Greg Hochmuth is an artist and engineer based in New York City. He studied computer science and design at Stanford University, and then worked as a product manager, engineer, and data analyst at Google, Instagram, and Facebook. In 2015, Greg started collaborating with Jonathan Harris based on their shared interest in data poetics; Network Effect, an exploration of the psychological effects of internet use on humanity, is the first project they have released together.

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Scott Barry Kaufman: Creative Brains

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Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive psychologist specializing in the development of intelligence and creativity.

He applies a variety of perspectives to come to a richer understanding and appreciation of all kinds of minds and ways of achieving greatness.

Kaufman is an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University, where he teaches courses on cognitive psychology and human intelligence.

He is also author of “Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined,” co-founder of The Creativity Post, and he writes the popular blog “Beautiful Minds” at Scientific American Mind.

more: www.scottbarrykaufman.com

Ellen Langer: Mindfulness Over Matter

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Ellen Langer is an artist and Harvard psychology professor who received her doctorate from Yale.

She has authored 11 books and over 200 research articles on the illusion of control, perceived control, successful aging and decision-making.

Each of these is examined through the lens of her theory of mindfulness.

Her research has demonstrated that by actively noticing new things — the essence of mindfulness — health, well being, and competence follow.

Fiery Cushman: Studying Harm

Fiery Cushman studies the human capacity for moral judgment and behavior.

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His research spans cognitive, neural, developmental and evolutionary approaches to this topic. It also serves as a platform to address more basic questions about the psychological mechanisms that make Homo sapiens stand apart dramatically from the other 8.5 million species on earth.

more at: Moral Psychology Research Lab

Laurie Leitch and Loree Sutton: Tapping social resilience

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Retired Army Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, MD and clinical trainer Laurie Leitch, Ph.D., founded Threshold GlobalWorks to explore a neurobiological approach to social resilience. “We are all wired with it, in case you did not know that,” says Leitch. “We are born neurologically wired for resilience because our system is survival-based.”

George Bonanno: Measuring human resilience

e	George Bonanno, a professor of clinical psychology, mines massive data sets for surprising revelations about how human beings cope with loss, trauma and other forms of extreme adversity. “There isn’t one thing that predicts resilience. It’s not two things. It is not necessarily in us.”

Simonetta Carbonaro: Liquid societies

Simonetta Carbonaro, a consumer psychologist, encourages us to think differently about consumption. She reminds us that a consumer-hungry outlook for cheaper and faster is outdated, and that we now know that consuming and producing less, in fact, creates more jobs, more free time, and more happiness.