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Conversation and the Mind

Conversation and the Mind. Matthew Kelley & Robert Looney. Dunbar’s Studies. The psychologist Kevin Dunbar’s studies of four science labs measured a correlation between conversation and innovation. Homogenous background = no analogies = no innovation

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Conversation and the Mind

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  1. Conversation and the Mind Matthew Kelley & Robert Looney

  2. Dunbar’s Studies • The psychologist Kevin Dunbar’s studies of four science labs measured a correlation between conversation and innovation. • Homogenous background = no analogies = no innovation • When people from different backgrounds come together, they are likely to have betters ideas due to different interpretations of the problem.

  3. Integrative Collaboration • Analogies are essential to collaboration creativity, and they’re more likely to emerge when participants bring their various experience to the table. • Conversation allows us to be more collaborative. • Psychologist Art Markman’s LEGO study • Integrative collaboration: a profound bonding that creates a shared vision.

  4. Conversational Insight • Creativity emerges form collaborative conversation. • By building on what someone says in a conversation, we can come up with new ideas. • “Yes, and” rule

  5. Indexicality • Coffeehouse • Indexicality: context dependence in speech. • Indexical words allow for opportunity for creativity.

  6. Equivocality • Companies have discovered that indirectness allows for greater innovation. • Equivocality: Ideas that open possibilities by making it easier for ideas to be reused to solve a different problem. • In an improv group, no single person determines their role. Each person’s role is decided collectively by the group.

  7. Question What is indexicality?

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