Dr. Pablo P. L. Tinio Receives $1 Million Grant from the Templeton Religious Trust

Dr. Pablo P. L. Tinio, Professor at the Educational Foundations Department and Head of the Creativity and Aesthetics Lab, and his research team were awarded a grant by the Templeton Religion Trust for the project Mirror to the World: The Power of Art to Build Understanding and Creativity. The $1 Million project will be carried out in collaboration with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. It will extend Dr. Tinio’s research on art’s ability to promote understanding and creativity.

The project will build on a previous $217,000 Templeton Religion Trust project (2022-2024) in which Dr. Tinio and Yale University colleague Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle examined the meaningful and profound impacts of art engagement at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Both projects are theoretically guided by Dr. Tinio’s Mirror Model of Art. This cognitive psychological model asserts that aesthetic reception mirrors, in reverse fashion, art creation and that the correspondence between the two processes is key to personally meaningful and profound outcomes of art engagement.

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