Experiencing creativity has 3 emotional stages: Space to be curious; Challenging times when pushing through self-doubt; & Expressing the joyful energy of realizing ideas. 

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Cultivating altruistic values & social intelligence in teacher education facilitates the leveraging of their social capital, which enables engagement in social entrepreneurship initiatives that address educational & community challenges.

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Crystallized intelligence (knowledge acquired through education & experience) supports creativity. Those with crystalized intelligence with  flexible access to semantic memory show enhanced verbal intelligence & creativity.

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Using AI in education increases the loss of human decision-making capabilities & increases lazier performance due to automation. Dependencies on AI can decrease interest in performing activities or learning new skills or methodologies.

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Creative adults are most creative on days with highly activated positive emotions & well-being but significantly less creative on days with negative emotions. High levels of openness enhances likelihood of everyday creativity.

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Playfulness is expressed at comparable levels in middle & older age as in younger age, & playfulness is associated with positive psychological functioning in every age group.

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There is a link between creativity and emotional intelligence if: The individual has a proactive personality & their work environment supports it.

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Experiencing rudeness reduces performance on routine tasks as well as on creative tasks as well as decreasing helpfulness, due to disruption to cognitive processes.

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Creative individuals (greater divergent thinking) tend to be more engaged & explorative with their thoughts when task demands are relaxed. They experience less boredom & greater flow of thought.

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There is an interconnectedness of humans & nonhuman entities & an embodied nature of identity and subjectivity. Reductionist approaches have constrained the arts’ potential to contribute more holistically to therapeutic practices.

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During group interactions, the group mindset contributes more to collective outcomes than individual creativity due to the tendency to herd with the group & the cognitive goal of generating novel ideas.

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Multi-media creative arts therapy has the potential to increase well-being and reduce anxiety for individuals with a neurodegenerative condition, such as Parkinson’s disease.

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Greater semantic memory networks allow for more efficient searches, thus enabling creativity. Therefore, greater semantic richness leads to greater linguistic maturity, resulting in increased creativity.

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Some people follow a more linear approach to creativity, and others a more iterative approach. Those who followed the iterative approach spend more time on idea selection & development, thus generating more original solutions.

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Divergent thinking involves integration from concrete sensory information to abstract, higher-level cognition. It is positively correlated with dopamine-related neurotransmitters & genes influencing neurotransmitter release.

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Atypical salience processing fosters creative thinking by prioritizing irrelevant information, broadening idea generation & inhibiting others overlook.

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For those who wish to enjoy the benefits of nature but are unable to readily access nature physically, taking a mental walk in nature also enhances creativity.

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Different factors, (ie gender, goal attributes, grit, task value, creativity & self-efficacy) largely predict high and low self-regulated learning during ill-structured problem-solving, in the context of online learning.

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Individuals attribute subjective values to their ideas, as a relative balance of their originality & adequacy. This relative balance depends on individual preferences & predicts individuals’ creative abilities.

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A radical imagination envisions valuing differences as fundamental for developing meaningful relationships among the workforce. A central requirement for this vision must be seeing the value - not the threat.

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Basic forms of musical entrainment may be considered intrinsically creative. Musical entrainment is a building block for different musical creativities that shape one's musical development.

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People have complex preferences for generating ideas during problem solving, activated by different underlying structures of the task. Aligning thinking styles with task structure improves overall motivation &  performance.

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There is an intricate and context‐dependent nature to creativity but overall, positive mood and cognitive stimulation enhance ideational fluency, through the flexibility pathway.

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Creativity is tied to the capacity to dynamically switch between brain networks supporting spontaneous and controlled cognition.

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For radical creativity to flourish, educators must evolve into leaders of creativity. Teaching and learning should be interdisciplinary to effectively foster radical creativity.

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The added value of creativity is salient during a crisis at work. While incremental creativity often improves faulty processes, radical creativity completely reinvents them. 

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Idea rejection, mediated by both problem restructuring and the activation of new knowledge, can be translated into employee creativity.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166497224001962

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By recognizing and incorporating the psychological need for creativity, novelty & spontaneity, restorative justice offers a means of rebellion against boredom & a path toward insight, creativity, and meaning through human engagement. 

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This is a strong link between humor & creativity, with positive correlations observed between creative self-efficacy & creative personal identity with different aspects of humor. 

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Cyberloafing (engaging in non-work-related internet activities during work hours), under controlled, intentional conditions such as self-driven projects, fosters creativity, innovation, well-being & improves morale. 

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Home environments that provide warmth and structure, positively affect the development of adolescents’ creativity personality. 

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Nonconformity is influential in fostering creativity especially when combined with reduced inhibitory control/distant associations, as creativity stems from combining distantly related ideas.

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I have published a new article in Psychology Today: Intergenerational Shame and Other Secrets Passed on by Your Parents

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The survival of mankind & the development of culture is built on the interconnectedness of love & creativity. Love is creativity, in the development of emotional & learning experience that open new views. Happy Holidays!

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Craft prefigures a type of creativity/innovation that addresses the challenges of contemporary economy & society & may thus serve as a source for inspiration to radically re-think current, ingrained notions of creativity & innovation.

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When creativity is required & there exists support for creativity, those with high positive activated/low negative activated affect & those with high positive activated/high negative activated affect, show high creativity. 

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Intrinsic motivation had a positive significant impact on creative performance of divergent thinking, originality of ideas, persistent attitude & intellectual risk-taking.

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Perfectionism can promote creative behavior, however, excessive perfectionism can lead to the fixation of  thinking, excessive  pursuit  of  quality, &  fear  of  the destabilizing  factors  that  come  with  innovation.

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Multi-sensoriality stimulates creativity as a process including visual-haptic manipulation of objects which  results in significantly more creative productions than visual-imaginative manipulation. 

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Fostering a nuanced, creative organizational environment facilitates transforming individual creativity into an organizational resource that leads to superior international performance.

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