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Dimitri van der Linden. Full Professor at the department of Work & Organizational Psychology - Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands)















|| Interview by ||Tony Grisoni. Screenwriter (UK & Italy)Vinca Wiedemann. Script-consultant & Story supervisor (Denmark)







Dimitri van der Linden is a full professor at the department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). One of his lines of research involves the neuroscience of the peak experience of flow: A state of full task immersion. He also studies other psychological states such as mental fatigue and burnout. He is also engaged in research on individual differences in personality and ability.  







In his interview for the StoryTANK, Dimitri van der Linden addresses the key dimensions of the experience of the flow and, the motivational and attentional brain systems involved in the flow.







Flow is a state of full task engagement that is accompanied with low-levels of self-referential thinking (e.g. Worrying, self-reflection). Experiencing flow is accompanied with sense of accomplishment, meaningfulness, and positive mood states.







In order to experience flow, there are four key dimensions:







* Match between a person’s skills and the task challenges: A too easy task more likely leads to boredom, rather than flow. A too difficult task often leads to frustration, stress or lack of interest, which are all states that are largely incompatible with flow* Strong attentional focus (task engagement or absorption): This implies the inhibition of task irrelevant stimuli or thoughts* Low levels of self-referential thinking: During flow, stress levels are low and so are worries and self- reflective thinking* Condensed perception of time: means that time seems to fly when people are in a flow. Dimitri and his colleague speculated that such flow-related changes in time perception may be linked to the reduced sense of self.

Florence Brunois-Pasina (France) : interview de l’ethnologue, chercheure au CNRS au Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale















|| Interview par ||Jérémy Bernard. Auteur-réalisateur, membre du collectif Les ParasitesJulien Lilti. ScénaristeAntoine Le Bos. Scénariste & Directeur artistique du Groupe Ouest















Florence Brunois-Pasina a suivi une formation en Droit Européen et Droit International (Master 2) à Paris II et à l'Université de Droit International de Vienne (Autriche), puis une formation en Anthropologie sociale et cinéma ethnographique à Paris X,  à Paris VII et à l'École des Hautes Études où elle soutient sa thèse de Doctorat en 2001 sous la direction de Maurice Godelier.







En à côtés, elle a eu le privilège de suivre pas à pas dans les jardins, les forêts ou son appartement rue d'Assas, les enseignements exigeants d'André-Georges Haudricourt durant les dernières années de sa vie, avant de gagner la Nouvelle-Guinée où elle apprendra autrement le monde auprès des Kasua. 







Recrutée au CNRS en 2003, elle gagne le Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, dirigé par Serge Bahuchet. Et en 2008, elle rejoint la Chaire d'Anthropologie de la Nature de Philippe Descola et intègre le Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale.







En savoir plus : "Une forêt de signes ou l’interspécificité de la narration chez les Kasua de Nouvelle-Guinée"

















https://youtu.be/ln2qn05_KBw

PhD Vlad Glăveanu. Full Professor of Psychology, Dublin City University - Former Head of the Department of Psychology & Counseling, Webster University Geneva - President of the Possibility Studies Network















|| Interview by ||Tony Grisoni. Screenwriter (UK & Italy)Vinca Wiedemann. Script-consultant & Story supervisor (Denmark)







|| Intentions || Creativity as dialogue"The dominant image of creativity in psychology and, to some extent, the arts, is that of a special mental process characteristic for some people (creative individuals) rather than others (who might hold creative potential but never get to enact it). In this talk I will challenge this representation by arguing that creativity has less to do with individual minds and more with relationships - between people, objects, settings, and culture. In particular, I will advance the notion that the creative process can be understood as a dialogue of perspectives in which different points of view meet, clash, and transform each other. This sociocultural framework moves us away from traditional ideas of novelty, originality, value, etc., and towards a new vocabulary for creative work including the notions of difference, position, perspective, and dialogue. Creativity as an act of repositioning and perspective-taking will be discussed with a view towards the activity of writers and other creative artists."— Vlad Glăveanu







Vlad Glăveanu, PhD, is Full Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, at Dublin City University and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE), University of Bergen, Norway, as well as President of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN).







His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, and societal challenges. He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017), authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience (Bloomsbury, 2020), and authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and book chapters in these areas.







Vlad co-edits the book series Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture for Palgrave Macmillan. In 2018, he received the Berlyne Award from the APA Division 10 for outstanding early career contributions to the field of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.









https://youtu.be/v0kR4b68QrU

François Jost (France) : interview du sémiologue, Professeur émérite en sciences de l'information et de la communication à la Sorbonne-Nouvelle















|| Interview par ||Guillaume Desjardins. Auteur-réalisateur, membre du collectif Les ParasitesJulien Lilti. Scénariste







Professeur émérite à la Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III, sémiologue, fondateur du Centre d’études sur les Images et les Sons médiatiques, François Jost est l’auteur de nombreux livres sur l’image et les médias, dont Les Nouveaux Méchants. Quand les séries américaines font bouger les lignes du Bien et du Mal (2015) ou encore De quoi les séries américaines sont-elles le symptôme ? (2011).







Dans l'échange pour le StoryTANK, il évoque avec nous les questions de l'éthique des scénaristes, notamment à travers l'exemple de la série Breaking Bad :







D’où vient le sens ? Le scénario comme reflet du monde ou comme symptôme ? Que disent les séries de notre monde, malgré elles, si l’on peut dire ?...









https://youtu.be/mSAn1ejcnBc

PhD Carola Salvi (Italy & USA) : Interview of the Cognitive Neuroscientist at the University of Texas, Austin.















|| Interview by ||Tony Grisoni. Screenwriter (UK & Italy)Vinca Wiedemann. Script-consultant & Story supervisor (Denmark)







Carola Salvi, Ph.D., is a research scientist in Dell Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a professor at the John Cabot University of Rome. She graduated summa cum laude and received her Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Prior to joining Dell Med, Salvi completed a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at Northwestern University, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago/Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.







Salvi’s work focuses on neural mechanisms underlying problem solving, creativity and cognitive flexibility. She approached this field by investigating its relationship with the sensory system (i.e., recording biomarkers such as eye blinks and pupil dilation), the involvement of the right temporal lobe (using brain stimulation and imaging) and the dopamine system (studying Parkinson’s disease patients and using reward-based learning paradigms), the effects of its emotional component (the “aha” experience) detecting its association with stress-induced by risk-taking and monetary reward, and validating new scales for measuring it in the Italian language.







Source: https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/carola-salvi









https://youtu.be/_HHur9RQD4s

Sabine Chalvon-Demersay (France) : interview de la directrice d'études à l'EHESS et directrice de recherche au CNRS en Sociologie des médias















|| Interview par ||Jérémy Bernard. Auteur-réalisateur, membre du collectif Les ParasitesJulien Lilti. Scénariste







La sociologue Sabine Chalvon-Demersay a axé ses recherches sur la fiction télévisée, abordée à travers ses professionnels, ses contenus, ses publics, dans le but d’analyser le rôle de l’imagination dans la compréhension du monde social.







Ces recherches portent sur l’élaboration et la diffusion de formes nouvelles de représentations sociales concernant la gestion des liens. Elles s’organisent autour d’une question centrale : quelles sont les conséquences du déclin des institutions sur les formes du lien social ?







Tout un pan de sa recherche porte sur les Héros de séries télévisées :







En savoir plus









https://youtu.be/cNY70431RKY