Creative thinking often improves during incubation when attention shifts to mind-wandering. Poetry reading during the incubation phase enhances associative thought (but not the the generation of novel ideas)

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Tacit knowledge, rather than explicit knowledge, partially mediates the relationship between a knowledge-sharing culture & organizational creativity.

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I have a new article published in Psychology Today: Learning to Think in a Made-up World. Enjoy.

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Incremental input incentives, which reward effort above a certain threshold, increase intrinsic motivation and prove to be more cost-efficient than level-based input incentives.

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The’ disruption of established patterns’ plays a key role in creative processes, providing opportunities for reorganization into novel functional patterns to discover, explore & learn. Agency is a form of disruption.

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It is essential for leaders to instill a curious mindset in the work environment as leadership displays of curiosity have a substantial impact on employees’ creative performance, psychological capital & a climate of psychological safety. 

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Mindfulness strongly links to teacher’s work engagement. Creativity positively correlates with work engagement, underscoring its value. Well-being enhances work engagement, fostering supportive teaching environments.

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Both emotions and self-efficacy positively influence creative thinking and collaborative intention, with self-efficacy acting as a partial moderator.

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The positive effects of habitual physical activity may generalize from better health, cognition, & creative ideation performance outcomes to more real-life creative behavior such as cooking original dishes & making music.

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Creativity contributes to learning by transforming the student experience through the identification, understanding, appropriation & applicability of concepts that stimulate imagination, interdisciplinary, intercultural integration & experimentation. 

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Social interactions significantly shape the creative process. Individuals with diverse social networks are more likely to access unique information, thereby transforming creativity into a dynamic exchange of ideas.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Networks

Combining creativity & movement science demonstrates the potential for well-designed movement interventions to ignite creative potential for individuals & overcome the tendency to remain anchored in a state of inertia.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Movement

Time spent experiencing creative goal-directed attention, followed by undirected attention, is the optimal sequence for maximizing both the usefulness and novelty of creative outputs. 

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Boundary-spanning behavior is a crucial catalyst for creativity, providing new resources, ideas & inspiration, but also poses challenges, potentially depleting cognitive resources & inducing stress that hinders creativity.

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Integrating culture & creativity into economic growth models can unveil a so far poorly understood driver of skills building & its important productivity & social sustainability implications.

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Creativity emerges from various degrees of interplay between predictive brains & changing environments: ones that repeatedly move the goalposts for our own error-minimizing machinery. 

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Human creativity is based on observing, imaging, abstracting, analogizing, playacting, modeling & body thinking. AI systems are currently only capable of pattern forming/recognition, so are not yet capable of true creativity.
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Receiving tacit knowledge leads the recipient to elaborate the received knowledge, which in turn boosts the recipient's creativity. This relationship is stronger when the recipient's psychological closeness to the partner is higher.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373291794_Does_receiving_knowledge_catalyze_creativity_A_dyadic-level_contingency_model_of_knowledge_type_and_psychological_closeness_on_knowledge_elaboration

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Uncertainty is experienced as destabilizing & results in doubt. Doubt & uncertainty, when perceived as actionable, can open-up a horizon of new possibilities for creative activity.

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Creativity is not solely determined by personality and traits. Creative people require certain contexts and social factors to fully realize their potential to create.

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Team creative diversity has a significant positive effect on creative performance but the high creativity of members does not translate into high team creative performance.

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Cognitively diverse teams outperform high intelligence (IQ) teams in problem solving, while businesses with at least one woman in their board of directors financially outperform ones with all men boards.

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Curiosity, especially stretching oneself & embracing new ideas, is a core component of creative potential & enriching creativity across various domains.

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I have a newly published article in Psychology Today: Navigating Chaos in Uncertain Times

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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.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Performance

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.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Affect

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.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Age

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

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #EI

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.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Therapeutic

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.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Parkinson’s

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.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Iterative

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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