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Liane Gabora is an assistant professor of psychology at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the mechanisms underlying evolutionary processes, and the origins of human creativity and culture. She is exploring implications of cultural evolution theory to the conditions under which worldviews collide, compete, or merge to generate novelty when culturally distinct groups interact. She also has an interest in the interface between digital technology, narrative, immersive experience, and the cultural evolution of gesture and dance. Her research is largely theoretical / computational, with some experimental work. She has over 50 publications and is writing a book titled Dawn of the Creative Mind: The Origin and Evolution of Innovative Ideas. She has given over 30 lectures at over 20 different universities and academic institutions in 10 different countries (including a keynote). Her home page has had over 27,000 hits from 83 different countries since its inception in October 1998. Click here for more information.

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