Towards a Science of Complex Emotions: In Awe of Creativity

Nowadays, science requires new attention towards the concept of experience. Some peculiar experiences of life, such as awe, cannot be longer considered just emotions, especially when they impact relatively stable tendencies such as our way to think creatively. I will show how the complex emotional experience of awe can shape our way to think creatively.

Speaker

• ALICE CHIRICO Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Assistant Professor

Alice Chirico, Ph.D., Chartered Psychologist, Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Advanced researcher at the ATNP-Lab, Italian Auxologico Institute of Milan, professional singer. Her main research interest concerns the study and the design of complex experiences, e.g., awe, the sublime, optimal group and dyadic creativity, sensorimotor synchronization in HHI and HRI, and Transformative Experiences, through art and technologies. She is currently working on applying complex experiences in the treatment of depressive disorders and to fight school dropout.