Art Markman, Ph.D.

Art Markman is a Cognitive Scientist at the University of Texas whose research spans a range of topics in the way people think.

Art Markman is Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin. He got his ScB in Cognitive Science from Brown and his PhD in Psychology from the University of Illinois. He has published over 100 scholarly works on topics in higher-level thinking including the effects of motivation on learning and performance, analogical reasoning, categorization, decision making, and creativity. He is currently executive editor of the journal Cognitive Science and associate editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science.

His PT blog is Ulterior Motives.