Giorgio Bertini
Director at Learning Change Project – Research on society, culture, art, neuroscience, cognition, critical thinking, intelligence, creativity, autopoiesis, self-organization, rhizomes, complexity, systems, networks, leadership, sustainability, thinkers, futures ++
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An Action Theory of Creativity
The present paper outlines An Action Theory of Creativity and substantiates this approach by investigating creative expression in five different domains. We propose an action framework for the analysis of creative acts built on the assumption that creativity is a … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity
Tagged creativity
Dehumanization in organizational settings: some scientific and ethical considerations
Dehumanizing attitudes and behaviors frequently occur in organizational settings and are often viewed as an acceptable, and even necessary, strategy for pursuing personal and organizational goals. Here I examine a number of commonly held beliefs about dehumanization and argue that … Continue reading
Posted in Dehumanization
Tagged Dehumanization
Social Cognitive Theory: How We Learn From the Behavior of Others
Social cognitive theory is a learning theory developed by the renowned Stanford psychology professor Albert Bandura. The theory provides a framework for understanding how people actively shape and are shaped by their environment. In particular, the theory details the processes … Continue reading
Posted in Social cognition
Tagged social cognition
How Working Parents Can Manage the Demands of Kids
For working parents with school-age children, this time of year is especially chaotic. The season brings end-of-the-school-year projects, state testing, report cards, parent-teacher conferences, the transition to 10 long weeks of child care arrangements, the awkwardness of explaining to colleagues … Continue reading
How Our Careers Affect Our Children
What working parent hasn’t felt guilty about missing soccer games and piano recitals? When there are last-minute schedule changes at work or required travel to a client site, it’s normal to worry that you’re somehow permanently scarring your little one. … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Uncategorized
Tagged Children's learning
What might explain the unhappiness epidemic?
We’d all like to be a little happier. The problem is that much of what determines happiness is outside of our control. Some of us are genetically predisposed to see the world through rose-colored glasses, while others have a generally … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Uncategorized
Tagged happiness
Innovation Spaces: New Places for Collective Intelligence?
Innovation is a complex and multifaceted notion, sometimes difficult to explain. The category of innovation spaces includes co‐working spaces, third places, Living Labs, open labs, incubators, accelerators, hothouses, canteens, FabLabs, MakerSpaces, Tech Shops, hackerspaces, design factories, and so on. Working … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged innovation, intelligence
The sociomateriality of Creativity in everyday life
This paper explores the sociomateriality of creativity in everyday life. Whilst creativity research has traditionally been concerned with the intellectual and individual skills promoting creativity, such as the ability to apply divergent thinking, this author anchors creativity in social practice. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, sociomateriality
Tagged creativity, sociomateriality
Procrastinators and Doers have different Brains
New research has found that there’s actually a difference between doers — the people who just get stuff done — and procrastinators — the ones who don’t. In the study, published in the journal Psychological Science, researchers used magnetic resonance … Continue reading
Posted in Brain, procrastination
Tagged brain, procrastination
Understanding parallels of human and animal Parenting can benefit generations to come
Strong evidence now shows that human and animal parenting share many nervous system mechanisms. This is the conclusion of Yerkes National Primate Research Center researchers Larry Young, Ph.D., and James Rilling, Ph.D., in their review article about the biology of … Continue reading
