Dr. Robert Sternberg

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Robert Sternberg, a leading researcher on creativity and intelligence, will be the guest lecturer for The University of Alabama psychology department’s annual Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture to be held Friday, Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. in 107 Shelby Hall.

In the public lecture at UA, Sternberg will discuss “Creativity is a Decision” and will focus on concepts of creativity, how it is measured and how it can be developed. Sternberg is currently dean of the School of Arts & Sciences and professor of psychology at Tufts University.

Sternberg received his doctorate degree from Stanford University in 1975. He is the author of more than 1,100 journal articles, book chapters and books, and has received substantial grant support for his research on intelligence, creativity and wisdom.

He has been listed in the APA Monitor on Psychology as one of the top 100 psychologists of the 20th century and is listed by the ISI as one of its most highly cited authors in psychology and psychiatry.

The Harold Basowitz Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the UA department of psychology in memory of Basowitz, who came to UA in 1940 and remained until called into military service. Basowitz returned to Tuscaloosa in 1946 and received his undergraduate degree from UA in 1947. He then went on to complete his doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Princeton in 1951.