Dr. Young-gun Ko, clinical psychologist and author, will speak at Westminster College on "Emotion of Genius, Genius of Emotion" Tuesday, April 19, at 5 p.m. in Phillips Lecture Hall located in the Hoyt Science Resources Center.

"I'll compare two world-famous physicists, Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr, in view of emotional intelligence, the life-span development, and ego defense mechanisms," Ko said.

"Ko was my graduate assistant while I was a Fulbright Lecturer at Korean University in 2000-2001," said Dr. Sandra Webster, professor of psychology and faculty development officer at Westminster College.  "Since then, he and his wife, Jin-Young Kim, have completed their Ph.D.s in Peter Salovey's lab, who is now the dean of Yale's Graduate School and former editor of the journal, Emotion.'  Ko has continued to be my research collaborator on the cross-cultural project on gender and generational effects of emotional reactions to stress, which he and his wife work on a book called The Genius of Emotion."

The event is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Webster at (724) 946-7359 or e-mail websters@westminster.edu.

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