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 * CS23. Scott Barry Kaufman, Sandra Russ & Jerome L. Singer ** – //From Children's Pretend Play to Cognitive, Social Skills, and Creativity//

May 28 Saturday 10:45-11:30 PM HM 150

It is our plan to demonstrate to an interdisciplinary audience how the latest research on play can be effectively employed in designing and evaluating industry products. We hope a useful interchange between researchers and “appliers” may emerge in a free discussion follow- up to the formal presentation.

Affiliation/Bio: New York University, Adjunct Asssistant Professor of Psychology, scott.barry.kaufman@nyu.edu. Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. is adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University; an M. Phil. in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar; and a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include the nature, identification, and development of human intelligence, creativity, imagination, and personality. In addition to publishing more than 25 book chapters and articles in professional journals such as //Cognition//, //Intelligence,// and //Journal of Creative Behavior//, he is co-editor of //The Psychology of Creative Writing// with James C. Kaufman. His work has been covered in media outlets such as //Scientific American Mind// and //Men’s Health//. Additionally, he writes a blog for //Psychology Today// entitled “Beautiful Minds.” Kaufman is the recipient of the 2008 Frank X. Barron award from Division 10 of the American Psychological Association for his research on the psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts. Co-presenter: Sandra Russ, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Sandra Russ, swr@case.edu. Sandra Russ, Ph.D. is professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University. Her research has focused on understanding how pretend play is involved in child development and in child psychotherapy. She has worked with her students to develop a measure of pretend play that assesses both cognitive and affective processes. She has also carried out a number of studies that have investigated the relationship between pretend play and areas of adaptive functioning such as creativity, coping, and emotional understanding. In addition, she has developed play intervention procedures to help children improve their play skills. She is author of //Play Child Development and Psychotherapy: Toward Empirically Supported Practice and Affect// and //Creativity: The Role of Affect and Play in the Creative Process//. Co-presenter: Jerome Singer, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Child Study, Yale University, jerome.singer@yale.edu. Jerome L. Singer, Ph.D. is professor emeritus of psychology and child study at Yale University. In his long and distinguished career, he has researched conscious experience as reflected in an ongoing stream of thought, fantasies, daydreams, and interior monologues and the more general issues of imagination, emotion, and nocturnal dreaming. He is also a published author and an editor of children's books. Some of the published credits of Jerome L. Singer include //Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age// and //Handbook of Children// //and the Media.//