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Imaginology is the science of how imagination meets reality. What happens in your brain when you get lost in a good book? How can an imaginary companion satisfy real social needs? Why do children seem more creative than adults, and are they really? Join host Dr. Deena Weisberg, a cognitive scientist and professor at Villanova University, as she talks with scientists, philosophers, writers, actors, therapists, and others about how imagination works and how it shapes our beliefs, our emotions, and our lives. Through conversations about pretend play, fictional stories, theater, games, and religion, Imaginology explores the surprising ways that imagination has profound effects on reality.
Update frequency:
every 5 days
Average audio length:
23 minutes
English
United States
4 episodes
since Sept. 29, 2026
episodic
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Imagination is on full display in acting, as people pretend to be someone who they are not. How does this work? And how can the theater, broadly construed, help us to understand ourselves? John de Lancie, most well-known for his role as the trickster god Q on Star Trek (The Next Generation, Deep Sp…
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Many people think that children are highly imaginative and creative, and that we lose those skills as we get older. Andrew Shtulman, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Occidental College, discusses why this belief is false and explains how creativity actually develops.
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Why do we cry at movies that we know are fictional? What do children's pretend games have in common with novelists' characters, or with war games run by government analysts? And is imagination really the same thing as creativity? In this first episode of Imaginology, host Deena Weisberg, PhD, Assoc…
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