John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

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A recent John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP) offered an opportunity for Harvard Kennedy School professors and IOP fellows to analyze what we have seen and what we might expect ...