People display more creativity after listening to music, with positive effects on creative cognition, semantic retrieval, and mood.

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Creativity is an evolved trait, hard-wired in the human genome with benefits including mating success, psychological well-being, human thriving & meaning making. 

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During a time when academia faces growing rates of burnout & stress, unusual (novel) interdisciplinary collaborations provide opportunities for opening and deepening research lines, & how they can be fun & meaningful.

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Being a highly sensitive person, that is, having Sensory Processing Sensitivity, specifically Aesthetic Sensitivity, is associated with higher creativity & empathy.

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Developing adolescents’ self-regulation skills significant contributes to their critical thinking & has a positive effect on their creativity. Critical thinking is a full mediator in the relationship between self-regulation & creativity.

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Creative thinking is stimulated by a multi-sensory (visual-haptic) manipulation phase (an active and divergent phase) set up before the creative production (convergent phase)

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Students with higher levels of flow experience in mathematics class exhibited better creativity in solving open-ended mathematical problems.

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Current generative AI is good only at discovery tasks involving a known representation of the domain knowledge or access to the scientists’ knowledge space; but maintains the illusion of making a completely successful discovery, with overconfidence. 

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2 conditions enhance creativity: divergent problem solving & emergent problem solving because balanced constraint improves intrinsic motivation & creative search. 2 conditions hinder creativity: ambiguous opportunity &  futile effort.

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Growth mindset & self-efficacy mediate the school climate-creativity link. Peer support positively influences students' self-reported creativity. Teacher support impacts creativity, as evaluated by teachers and parents.

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Embodied creativity/movement fosters deeper engagement with identity & difference in the classroom, acting as a transformative tool for inclusive & situated learning,& supporting decolonization of knowledge.

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Highly creative people are characterized by flexible and balanced interactions between the Default Mode & Executive Control Networks. 

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Ethical leadership is a strong predictor of belongingness & psychological safety that helps employees to be creative. Further, the working climate, when it is ethical, also improves the impact of ethical leadership.

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Social exclusion can trigger malevolent creativity, with independent individuals being more malicious than interdependent individuals.

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Groups with high motivation to cooperate exhibit significantly higher originality & flexibility than those with low motivation to cooperate, particularly for groups comprised of individuals with low or medium openness.

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High levels of social skill & creativity increase empathy, sense of humor & self-expression, creating a moderating effect on bullying. Deficits can lead to disruptive behavior, low self-esteem & difficulties in relationships. 

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By challenging the notion that humans are the sole proprietors of creativity, one can explore alternative forms of creativity beyond the human realm and consider how humans can facilitate their emergence.

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Although a theoretical construction, the space-time continuum is a model for reality & can be internalized to become a thinking style, thus favoring the of intelligence, of creativity, or of both.

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Individuals who are able to generate multiple novel, rich, detailed & unique ideas are those who can also hone in on correct ones from a range of alternatives (they are adept at identifying correct solutions). 

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Oxytocin exerts a dissociable influence on creativity contingent upon an individual’s motivational tendencies, aligning with behavioral findings, functional connectivity and graph theory analyses of neural data. 

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There is a relationship between meaning in life & creativity in which meaninglessness may negatively impact creativity and vice versa. 

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Creative approaches & questions from peers help students master study material better. Specifically, students exposed to creative peers become more creative, but do not adjust their overall study effort.

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There is a sustained need for holistic and relational approaches that address the entanglement of social and natural environments with healthy aging and creative wellbeing.
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The utilization of AI in the creative process not only aids in generating diverse design options but also instills a deeper understanding of design principles.

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Psychedelic drugs increase sense of connectedness, creative potential ( originality, fluency) & creative activities, with connectedness (to the self) appearing to be the psychological reason for the enhanced creativity.

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Creativity is elicited by positive emotions that increase cognitive flexibility and facilitate progression in activities throughout the creative process.

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Post-traumatic growth positively predicts creativity through self-efficacy. Specifically, deliberate rumination moderates self-efficacy & creativity, so the association is stronger when deliberate rumination is low.

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Creativity factors such as creative personality & divergent thinking, together with social support, predict resilience.

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Digital learning positively stimulates creativity in education. Game-based learning, collaborative interactions & real-world problem-solving tasks are particularly effective in enhancing creativity.

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Arts participation is beneficial to stress levels, feelings of achievement & general state of well-being& crucial for developing self-awareness, emotional intelligence, confidence, problem-solving abilities, creative thinking, & mindfulness.

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I've published a new article in Psychology Today: 10 Ways to Know if Your Lover Is Really a Hater

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Student participation in extracurricular dance, music, painting, drawing, literature & poetry is positively related to greater creativity.

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Engagement, professionalization & participatory learning mutually influence each other, bringing forth innovative crisis interventions in alternative care models.

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Care

A primary criterion for differentiation between natural & artificial intelligence is the ability to pose new questions, because it is questions that allow one to go beyond the boundaries of the program

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Questions

Neurobiological analyses show that the divergent thinking pattern is positively correlated with dopamine-related neurotransmitters and genes influencing neurotransmitter release

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Student participation in extracurricular dance, music, painting, drawing, literature & poetry is positively related to greater creativity.

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

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Artificial creativity is a good way to describe the output from AI. For now, even when the output is original & effective, it lacks the authenticity and intentionality that is apparent in human creativity.

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Creative activities have the ability to transform emotions, replace negative feelings with positive ones, and enhance self-confidence among young people.

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Musical collaborators do not simply experience but also actively utilize constraints, enabling songwriters to organize for an oscillation between stable, generative & flexible constraint characterizations, fueling the creative process.

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