Film Courage: Connie you have a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology?
Film Courage: How did you get involved in a book on screenwriting?
Dr. Shears: Paul and I sat together on a committee in 2010 or 2011. And he asked me what does constructionist psychology say about why people get bored at movies?
He asked these questions that made me kind of rethink his pulse on ideas about constructionist psychology and my education in understanding the brain processes that he’s really describing, he’s sort of umbrella terming constructionist psychology when it’s actually the neuroscience of…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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