Employees with a disability are often viewed as a burden that requires accommodation; however, can make workplace imperfections salient & act as a situational cue that increases coworkers’ cognitive flexibility & creativity.

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Happiness broadens thinking & strengthens intrinsic motivation, fostering innovative behavior. But, role conflict, a stressor can, under certain conditions, stimulate reflection & drive unconventional solutions & creative insight.

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Creative experiences appear to enhance brain health. The higher the level of expertise and performance, the greater the delay in brain age.

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Psychological factors play a crucial role in the creative design process. Companies should encourage autonomy & passion-driven projects, allowing designers to explore their personal aesthetics & values, thereby facilitating flow & identity integration. 

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Creativity is not as a unitary trait but a dynamic, synergistic orchestration of paradoxical tensions operating the dimensions of individual cognitive mechanisms, group dynamics & cultural contexts.

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Generative AI can serve as an epistemic mediator toward unlocked creativity only if humans maintain agency & embed its outputs in broader socio-cultural frameworks. 

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Positive thinking training is effective in improving resilience & life satisfaction in older adults, increasing flexibility, confidence, life expectancy, purposefulness, social participation & a positive view of life & the future.

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Moral disengagement, anger & implicit aggression serve as serial mediators between perceptions of unfairness & malevolent creativity.

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Divergent thinking can be characterized as a kind of spreading activation & exploration of varied pathways while deviation amplification starts with one variation & then explores only that pathway via exaggeration. 

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Creativity is closely connected to students’ socio-emotional development. Investing in emotional skills, supportive relationships & positive school environments powerfully fosters creativity & promotes healthier, more balanced development.

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I’ve published a new article in Psychology Today: Why Am I So Lonely?

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Empathy is a core element of organizational communication allowing employees to feel understood & respected during project discussions/collaboration & can significantly enhance psychological safety within teams. 
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Creative self-efficacy is a critical driver for employee creativity. High creative performance is not possible without a strong confidence about one’s creative capacities, regardless of other factors (e.g. openness, creative identity etc.)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10400419.2026.2626866

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Higher levels of surprising content (higher perplexity) predict greater divergent thinking capacity, bridging theories of creative cognition with naturalistic, verbal data.

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Intransigent polarization, a refusal to listen to attitudinally dissimilar others prompts declines in perspective taking, intellectual humility & open-minded cognition. Modeling different perspectives reduces/prevents intransigent polarization.

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Perceived organizational tightness, perception that an organization is characterized by strong norms & sanctions for deviation, increases clarity on creativity evaluation standards for men.

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Being struck by a creative insight can be increased by sleeping on a problem. REM sleep biases dream content toward unsolved puzzles & when puzzles are incorporated into dreams, are more likely to be solved the next morning. 

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Maintaining temperatures within a normative range (71.6 - 78.8 F) & focusing on ventilation, to lower carbon dioxide concentrations & pollutants, can promote creative thinking in working environments.

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Heart sensations are correlated positively with the feeling of creativity. Musical chord progressions characterized by high uncertainty & surprise generates heightened feelings of creativity alongside increased arousal.

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In the context of stable curiosity traits, stress tolerance (capacity to accept uncertainty) & joyous exploration (tendency to experience pleasure seeking uncertain experiences) are most strongly associated with creativity. 

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Intuition operates as an embodied, experience-based process enabling individuals to recognize patterns, anticipate possibilities & respond to uncertainty with contextual sensitivity. It is a learnable skill that improves with practice.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399230820_Intuition_as_a_foundational_human_competence_for_creativity_ethics_and_professional_judgment_in_education_in_the_age_of_artificial_intelligence

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Creative idea selection relies on a value-based comparison process, medicated by the brain’s generic valuation system, rather than specialized creative machinery.

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Cultivating ‘grit’ (ie  perseverance & passion for long-term goals) in students, particularly those facing academic challenges, may be more effective than focusing solely on curiosity.

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Flow emerges as a unique neurocognitive phenomenon fostering creativity through default mode and executive control network synergy while providing emotional stability via reduced self-monitoring & negative affect. 

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While teachers generally acknowledge creativity’s importance & strive to integrate it, they encounter obstacles such as limited resources, time constraints & insufficient institutional support. 

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Creators are concerned about the economic impact & industry disruption caused by AI, evoking a complex evolution from AI resistance & anxiety to compromise & attempts at co-creation, suggesting a coevolutionary path. 

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In uncertain life situation, creativity becomes transformative through futures thinking & creativity, through which it is possible to reframe worries & anxiety into a superpower

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Flextime is significantly related to radical & incremental creativity. Offering work schedule discretion enhances employees’ perceived control over their work, thus increasing ownership & accountability for work outcomes.

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Low-intensity incivility (e.g. neglect, sarcasm) can erode employees’ psychological safety & trust in the workplace. Creativity operates as cognitive capital, in defensive silence context, for regulating emotions & reframing adverse situations.

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Curiosity drives both early learning & later, complex understanding. Curiosity can spark moments of creativity through knowledge change.

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While aging is associated with some types of cognitive decline, it also fosters unique cognitive strengths that can enhance certain aspects of creativity to exceed younger & middle-aged adults, leveraging distant associations.

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Supportive & comfortable environments that foster positive connections & emotional well-being are more consistently associated with favorable creativity outcomes than environments centered primarily on challenge. 

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Primary care team creativity is a valid, actionable construct in primary care with demonstrated potential for enhancing care effectiveness, reducing burnout & enhancing job satisfaction for primary care professionals.

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Abstract artworks depicting dystopian scenarios of climate change compared to documentary photographs, result in more psychological distancing, lower attention to climate change & reduced efficacy beliefs to mitigate climate change.

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Core psychological mechanisms underlying creative problem-solving skills includes 3 psychological dispositions: Design thinking mindset, creative self-efficacy & a critical thinking disposition. 

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Art installations in educational settings serve as immersive, interdisciplinary teaching tools that enrich interactive curricula by engaging multiple senses which add a sensory & immersive dimension to the projects.

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Group creativity emerges from Flexibility, Persistence & Convergence pathways. The convergence pathway enhances group creativity not only by itself, but also by stimulating the flexibility & persistence pathways.

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Effective problem-solving in creative tasks often rely on fast, automatic associative processes within semantic memory, without requiring extended deliberation.

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Interpersonal feedback improves creativity acquisition & transfer. Applying that feedback positively correlates with creativity enhancement, while ignoring the feedback it is negatively correlated. 
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Both teacher support & peer support are positively associated with art creativity. Learning interest & self-efficacy are partial mediators between teacher/peer support & art creativity.
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