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

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Mood

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

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Interdisciplinary

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

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Interdisciplinary

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. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Justice

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

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Humor

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. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Loafing

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

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Shame

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!

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Love

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.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Craft

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. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Affect

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

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Intrinsic

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.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Perfectionism

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

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Multisensory

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

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Performance

Personalities and psychopathologies marked by approach (versus avoidance) motivation, link to creativity because of enhanced capacity for flexibility & persistence.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Motivation

Academic culture currently hampers collaboration. Key roadblocks include rewards & recognition, the lack of spaces for trust-building & competence & skills are not geared towards collaboration. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Academia

Visual stimulation & social space constitute creative output's most significant physical aspects. Creative environments should include multi-sensory experiences, balanced support for individual incubation & the an innovative culture.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Environment

Core cognitive processes of creativity (semantic memory, novel response generation, strategic retrieval & executive functions) play critical roles in divergent & convergent thought, all critical for producing new creative thoughts.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Roles

In the gender–creativity relationship, men and women differ in creativity with women more able to leverage the communal mechanism to enhance creativity & inform theory & practice towards a more gender-equitable workplace.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Gender

Semantic memory supports both verbal & nonverbal creative thinking; Working memory supports convergent creative thinking; and,The cognitive control of memory is central to performance on creative thinking tasks.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Memory

There are overall positive effects of physical activity on creativity in everyday life contexts, specifically noted with walking in the domain-specific ‘ figural creativity’.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Walking

Poor sleep quality and insomnia is disproportionally found in creative individuals which is associated with greater impairment in task performance that measures creative thinking.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Sleep

Creative pedagogy encourages students to transcend conventional knowledge & apply critical thinking in authentic real-world scenarios, allowing them to identify problem origins, evaluate alternatives & generate creative solutions.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #CriticalThinking

Creativity consists of 3 main elements: fluency, flexibility & originality. Flow requires familiarity with the learning tools; flexibility requires cultivation process is non-linear & linear scaffolding is not suitable for creative problem-solving. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Elements

When creative co-workers are present, the less supervisors engage in close monitoring (but provide developmental feedback), the more employees exhibit creativity. This condition is stronger with less creative employees.

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In creative teaching, the balance of challenges & skills, goal clarity & feedback affect students’ immediate & continuous experiences, with immediate experiences having positive effects on behavioral & social engagement.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Balence

Physical environment helps creativity flourish, especially visual stimulation & social space. The creative environments should include multi-sensory experiences & support for individual incubation & an innovative culture.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Environment

Mild creative pressure generally increases associative thinking & creative performance but high levels of creative anxiety hinders people’s ability to think creatively, especially on demand.

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When there is competition between in-groups and out-groups, benefit for creativity is found, however there is no significant benefit on creativity when the competition is within the same group of participants.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Competition

The study of creativity & AI must engage such that the research privileges neither the human user nor machine algorithm but instead emphasizes a relational & distributed form of agency.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #AI

I have a new article published in Psychology Today: How to Live in the Present Moment and Stop Worrying So Much
I hope you’ll find it uplifting.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Worry

Arts participation is an effective pathway for individual flourishing and that more diverse and profound engagement in the arts can lead to sustained and widespread happiness.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Happiness

Aesthetic modes of engagement to be powerful with regard to ecological awareness, capable of being a positive motivator of small shifts in thinking which are a precursor to climate action.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Eco

Different art mediums influence neural activation variously, showing enhanced activity in regions linked to empathy & feedback in paper-based tasks like drawing and creative digital activities .

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Medium

Shared reading & arts interventions promotes a sense of equality by creating a space where social interaction/relatedness hinges on lived experiences & vulnerabilities shared through text & shared among participants.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Relatedness

Cognitive flexibility guides individuals' critical navigation of the digital information (& misinformation) landscape, promoting nuanced and less polarized perspectives. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Misinformation