Traditions, norms, laws & customs foster shared predictions/expectations & reduce social uncertainty. Arts/media expose us to simulated/alternative social realities, increasing predictive potential.

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Lower internal attention, less memory load & increased sensory processing are associated with more effective & accurate monitoring of the creative process. 

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Imagination bespeaks cognitive processes, creativity & a focus on innovative action; these are synergistic partners, with plausibility being the link between them.

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Music training can bring about structural & functional changes in the brain, with positive effects on social bonding, cognitive abilities & language processing. 

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There is a positive relationship between creative ideation & external locus of control & between happiness & creative ideation for those individuals with internal vs external locus of control.
“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Internal”

Lower creative ability people tend to avoid risky situations & decisions, preferring the status quo, while people with higher creative skills tend not to flinch from challenging situations.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Challenges”

Addressing society’s issues requires companies to societally hybridize, that is, introduce societal goals alongside profit goals to transition to a deeper societal impact commitment.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Social”

Episodic retrieval supports the evaluation of creative ideas. People refer more to the past when evaluating familiar, effective ideas & more to the future when evaluating novel, less effective ideas.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Episodic”

The performing arts, through their collaborative nature, encourage teamwork, communication & mutual respect as well as playing a pivotal role in fostering inclusivity through their ability to engage, connect & communicate.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Performance”

For innovation to flourish, compassion needs to be cultivated throughout an organization, activating flexibility, organizational performance & learning.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Compassion”

Green inclusive leadership has a positive effect on green creativity &  organizational environmental citizenship behavior plays a mediating role in this relationship. 

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Green”

Metacognitive accuracy (understanding one’s own thinking process) is necessary for high creativity to occur; that is, individuals with inaccurate metacognitive monitoring  may not exhibit high creativity.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Meta”

Acute stress negatively impacts creative performance & indirectly affects creativity through the mediating role of cortisol levels & cognitive flexibility.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Stress”

Surrounding yourself with plants improves concentration, increases  endorphins/mood & stimulates the brain, increasing creativity.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Plants”

With children, pretend play is positively related to emotion regulation &creativity as measured by divergent thinking & storytelling.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Pretend”

Creative pedagogies support critical thinking, openness to learning & engagement with multiple forms of knowledge, allowing embodied analysis of power, knowledge and social justice.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Knowledge”

Research creativity is essential to address complex challenges. Strategies include: Define the problem carefully; be inspired by others' work; nurture skepticism & open-mindedness; don't use only words; iterate - embrace failure & teamwork.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Strategies”

New innovations face substantial doubts of practicability/usefulness, often leading to immediate rejection. New ways must be developed to mitigate the bias against creative change & promote successful creative ideation.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Bias”

Patients who experience anxiety, associated with chronic illness, exhibit state anxiety reduction & improved concentration after engaging in mandala coloring.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Coloring”

I have a new article in Psychology Today: Why Does it Hurt to Feel Lonely?
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, they find it attached to the rest of the world.” (John Muir)

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Loneliness”

Disruptive innovation theories are dynamic in nature, reflective of an ongoing process rather than a fixed set of principles, continually adapting and expanding to meet the complexities of emergent dynamics. 

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Dynamic”

Co-creation is increasingly linked to sustainable development & positive social impact, focusing on creating shared value for businesses & society

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Co-Creation”

Creative self-efficacy is a teachable competence associated with the willingness to take risks, openness & tolerance for ambiguity. It provides enquiry-orientated learning experiences that facilitate efficacy-building.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “SelfEfficacy”

Embodied approaches to music education (moving to the music) provoke flexible/creative navigation of the musical affordance landscape by eliciting meaningful engagement with music, that leads to novel insights & experiences.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Movement”

Throughout the creative process, creators switch the focus of their work from outside beneficiaries to their own benefit, serving as a trigger to reinforce creators' motivations to continue work beyond the first set of creative outputs. 

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Benefits”

Art-based programs in high school enhances creativity, fostering creative activities, & improve academic performance, including enhancements in visualization, breaking boundaries, humor, richness of imagery & colorfulness of imagery.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Education”

Men express greater confidence in generating creative ideas at work. Females take fewer risks than males at work, not because they are less creative, but because female creativity is less supported & gender exportations exacerbate efficacy.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Gender”

Students more exposed to narrative, graphic & general creativity outperform students who have less exposure to creative tasks.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Performance”

Collaborative spaces can expand individuals' creativity/generative ideas, as they constitute a social hub for exchanging experiences & visions between people from different social and professional backgrounds.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Collaborative”

The combination of olfactory cues & nostalgia memory recollection, triggering nostalgia, boost divergent thinking & are correlated with positive emotions & inspiration.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Nostalgia”

How does the brain gets into creative flow? 1-Experience - creating a brain network specialized for generating a desired type of ideas; & 2-a release of control (letting go) allowing this network to work with little/no conscious supervision.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Flow”

Developing emotional creativity can serve as a strategic approach to counteract the mediating effect of trauma symptoms on achievement motivation. 

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Emotion”

Design thinking promotes creativity in students’ digital works, especially value, diversity & originality & enhances awareness of using IT to address daily challenges/ facilitate information knowledge & skills.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “DT”

VR & AR have expanded capacity for immersive art experiences & scientific simulations. Technology-driven data analysis & modeling have also enhanced our understanding of ecological systems & informed sustainable practices.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Eco”

Engaging in creative tasks increases ambiguity tolerance and can improve cognitive & affective well-being, openness to diversity, and willingness to engage in pro-social behaviors.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Ambiguity”

Adaptive creative thinkers create original ideas more likely to fit the existing paradigms; innovative creative thinkers create original ideas that are more likely to challenge paradigms. 

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Ideas”

People prefer harmony but this is modified by a predilection for stimuli that are more familiar, not just structurally simpler, more regular, and/or more harmonious.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Music”

When approached with high levels of ‘openness to experience’, travel offers cognitive resource maximization, positive emotions, & new, out-of-ordinary experiences, enabling creativity to flourish.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Openness”

Throughout the creative process, engagement in behaviors that that are more autonomous & less constrained (e.g. idea generation) produces more positive affect, especially when aiding positive goal progress.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Generativity”

Creativity is influenced by’ sitting postures - sitting in a contractive posture requiring arm flexion to perform a convergent-integrative thinking task leads to better creative performance than sitting in an expansive posture requiring arm extension.

“Science” “Art” “RelationalSpace” “Sitting”