The Evolving Connection with Art

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 creativity researchers attend this conference each year so that they can find out about the latest research findings, and now you can hear about it, too. This episode takes you to the conference room floor. Listen to this episode and also the last one, because there is too much great research for just one episode! Dr. Sawyer invited five researchers to tell us about their latest research findings, and there are six more in the last episode.

Chapters

0:00 Intro

0:35 Paul Silvia - Co-organizer of the conference

8:04 Hansika Kapoor - Dark creativity

17:41 Takeshi Okada - Living with art

27:00 Interlude

27:51 Angie Miller - Strategic National Arts Alumni Program

36:48 Taylor Worley - Slow looking

51:45 Outro

55:58 Closer

Resources

Conference web site

Conference detailed schedule of presentations

Music by license from SoundStripe:

• "Uptown Lovers Instrumental" by AFTERNOONZ
• "Miss Missy" by AFTERNOONZ
• "What's the Big Deal" by Ryan Saranich

Copyright (c) 2025 Keith Sawyer