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Welcome to 2022! For the start of this hopefully amazing year, Dr. David Melnikoff joins us to describe how goals reshape our brains. Whenever you begin a New Year's resolution or another goal, your mind changes its operation in order to align itself best for that new task. Dr. Melnikoff also defines the psychological theory of "flow," a cited creativity and productivity booster, and explains his work to create a computational model of it.
Here are a few questions Dr. Melnikoff discusses-
- How do goals reconfigure our brains?
- Do goals that we don't often enjoy doing (like exercising) still shape our minds?
- How do our motives affect our interpretation of events and stimuli?
- What is "flow?"
- How will your computational model of flow help us in the future?
**Dr. David Melnikoff **is a social psychologist studying how goals shape the human mind. He earned his PhD in 2019 from Yale University where he worked with John Bargh). Currently, Dr. Melnikoff is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University working with Lisa Feldman Barrett.
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