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Dr. Markman is a professor of psychology and director of the program in Human Dimensions of Organizations at The University of Texas at Austin. This program brings together the humanities and the social and behavioral sciences to teach people in business, nonprofits, government, and the military about people. He is also Director at the IC² Institute where he has worked on projects relating to innovation, incubation, and the factors that promote success in the Austin Technology Incubator.
Dr. Markman is also director of the Similarity and Cognition Laboratory in the Psychology Department. He has written over 150 scholarly works on topics including decision making, reasoning, categorization, and motivation. He explores the influence of the ability to form and use analogies on the way people generate creative ideas. Dr. Markman also serves as executive editor of the journal Cognitive Science .
In addition to this scholarly work, Dr. Markman brings insights from his field to a broader audience. Art is co-host of a popular radio show and podcast, Two Guys on Your Head, produced by KUT Radio in Austin. He blogs for Psychology Today, Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, and 99U . He is on the scientific advisory boards of the Dr. Phil Show and the Dr. Oz Show and serves as psychology site advisor to YouBeauty.com. His most recent books for popular audiences are Smart Thinking (2012), Habits of Leadership (2013), Smart Change (2014), and Brain Briefs (with B. Duke, 2016).
