Bio
Art Markman is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations. He got his ScB from Brown University and his PhD from the University of Illinois. Before coming to the University of Texas, Art taught at Northwestern University and Columbia University.
Art’s research explores thinking. He has studied the way people form and use analogies, the mechanisms of decision making, the modes that allow people to form a categories, and the influences of motivation on reasoning. Art is also the executive editor of the journal Cognitive Science and is a former executive officer of the Cognitive Science Society.
Art has always been interested in bringing insights from Cognitive Science to a broader audience. To that end, he writes blogs for Psychology Today and Huffington Post. He consults for companies interested in using Cognitive Science in their businesses. He also provides executive education services through his company Maximizing Mind, LLC.
When he’s not doing things related to Cognitive Science, Art can be found spending time with his family or playing tenor sax in a blues band.