Robert Keith Sawyer | |
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Born | April 28, 1960 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Psychologist, author |
Known for | Creativity, Collaboration, Learning |
Title | Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | The performance of pretend play: enacting peer culture in conversation (1994) |
Doctoral advisor | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Psychology |
Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Website | www |
Robert Keith Sawyer is an American psychologist. He is an expert on creativity,collaboration,and learning. [1] [2] [3] [4] He has published 19 books and over 100 scientific articles. His best-known books are Group Genius, [5] Zig Zag, [6] and Explaining Creativity. [7] Fifteen of his books have been translated into other language editions,primarily Chinese Japanese,and Korean. He is the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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