Thomas B. Ward
Professor
Primary Concentration:
  Secondary Concentration:
Cognitive   Developmental
     
Contact Information:
  Courses:
Office: 410A Gordon Palmer

PY 491: The Creative Mind

Py 470:  Cognitive Psychology

Phone: (205) 348-3178
FAX: (205)  348-8648  
E-Mail: tward@creativityforyou.com 
  Website: http://bama.ua.edu/~tward  

Research Interests: The nature of concepts, including how they are acquired, structured, combined, and used in creative and noncreative endeavors
 
Research Affiliations: Generative Cognition Laboratory
  SUDS Research Group
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Recent Publications: Wickes, K. N. S., & Ward, T. B., (2006). Measuring gifted adolescents’ implicit theories of creativity. Roeper Review. 28, 131-139.
  Ward, T. B., Chu, A., Vaid, J., & Heredia, R. H. (2005).  Divergence and overlap in bilingual concept representations.  In B. Bara, M. Bucciarelli, & L. Barsalou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  Ward, T. B., Patterson, M. J. & Sifonis, C. (2004).  The role of specificity and abstraction in creative idea generation. Creativity Research Journal, 16, 1-9
  Baron, R. A., & Ward, T. B. (2004).  Expanding entrepreneurial cognition’s toolbox: Potential contributions from the field of cognitive science. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 28, 553-574
  Ward, T. B. (2004). Cognition, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 19, 173-188