Individuals with a creative mindset tend to utilize their free time more effectively by engaging in mental exploration, allowing one thought to naturally progress to another.

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AI has reached the same level, or surpassed, the average human's ability to generate ideas - the primary weakness in humans' performance lies in the high proportion of poor-quality ideas.


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Critical & creative thinking is a form of making, and manifests in the reasoning processes critics use to formulate judgments of artwork meaning. 


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Playing video games is positively associated with higher optimism, which in turn is associated with more creativity in the workplace.

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Cultivating 4 types of divergent thinking affords better odds of converting new challenges into successful innovation: Integration; Splitting; Figure-ground reversal; & Distal thinking.

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Overall, there’s no single profile for everyday creativity: some people enjoy spending time on many different kinds of creative tasks, & others focus their creative efforts on one or two areas.

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Perspective taking mediates authenticity (acting in congruence with one’s inner self) & benevolent creativity suggesting authentic people may have higher levels of perspective-taking.

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Creative process behaviors that are more autonomous & less constrained, such as idea generation, increase positive affect & may repair a negative mood.


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Creative New Normal posits a shift towards focus on creative person rather than creative product, a dynamic, evolving, individualized diversity of ways to be creative for self, society & planet.


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Adults who rate their mental health as very good/excellent engage in creative activities (music, puzzles, drawing, dancing etc) more often than those reporting good/fair/poor mental health.

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One process contributing to human creativity is the ability to generate novel representations of unfamiliar situations by completing a partially specified relation or an analogy.

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Social creativity, comprising interdisciplinarity, design thinking & entrepreneurial acumen (as well as the university reimagined) are critical for more complete theorizing about creative challenges.

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Downward social comparison of creative ability, often experienced by individuals in team situations, is positively related to negative affect & negatively impacts creativity.

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The concept of creativity is closely related to the major purpose of innovation (ie problem solving. Companies more closely related to creative industries tend to have higher innovation rates.

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Symbolism, emotionality & imaginativeness are primary attributes influencing how creativity is judged in visual art, with abstractness, valence & complexity having impact to a lesser degree.

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Digital skills/competences are important for performance makers, but success is less dependent on the mastery of specific technical skills than on a creative use of digital technologies.

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3 challenges exist for re-establishing a creativity culture in science: communicating what science is/what it is for; what scientists value; & how scientists create/co-create science with/for society.

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Practicing creative thinking is positively associated with academic achievement, with a significant difference in the level of practicing creative thinking due to gender, favoring male students.

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Creative economy, i.e. intangible/symbolic cultural aspects feeding on creative talents & producing creative goods & services, are a key engine of regional development.

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In collective motor situations (i.e. sport), creativity & empathy are central to cognitive & affective processes. Empathy allows players to anticipate motor behaviors & promote decision-making.

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Curiosity facilitates creative problem-finding process in early stages of the creative process & drives exploratory meaning- making processes during the problem-solving stage.

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Psychological safety & intentional team connections foster creativity & innovation in remote work settings, further facilitated with virtual tools allowing teams to visually maps thoughts/ideas.

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Outdoor exercise (vs indoor exercise) increases neuronal activity in brain regions related to creativity & increases subjective experiences of flow.

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Humor is an interpersonal resource. Leader humor enhances employee incremental and radical creativity & allows them to voice their opinions.

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I have a new article posted in Psychology Today: How You Can Tame a Raging Fight-or-Flight Response - Learn to better recognize and manage a fight-or-flight cascade.

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Virtual plants in virtual offices has positive impacts. Users perceive spaces to have greater presence & more restorative with better performance & greater well-being, short-term memory & creativity.

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Innovative scientific thinking requires creating space for exploring ideas in a free-flowing setting; and, open-ended informal, cooperative dialogue for sharing radically different perspectives.

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Frequently recalling dreams increases creativity, suggesting that the exploration of weak or novel relationships during dreaming increases creativity while awake.

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The subjective evaluation of ideas plays an important role in creativity, with a positive relationship between the speed of production of new ideas & participants’ level of appreciation of these ideas.

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‘Socially Just' creativity is the ability to generate unique & effective ideas in conjunction with other members of a community to challenge unjust status quos & tackle wicked social justice problems.

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Viewing pain through the lens of art and creativity offers a more encompassing understanding of pain. Art has the potential to improve clinical encounters & promote health/well-being.

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When students experience opportunities for creative divergent thinking, they perceive higher project uniqueness, higher levels of motivation, higher motivation & more positive course experiences.

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Creativity is contingent upon the technological opportunity provided to employees directly and indirectly by affecting their ability to integrate knowledge.

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When low-openness individuals reappraise negative emotional events, they exhibit greater creativity in subsequent tasks, because reappraisal fosters cognitive flexibility.

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Creativity training can influence biases, enhance ones ability to experience emotions that are not automatic, take the outgroup perspective & broaden the narrow thinking style of stereotyping.

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Shame affects creativity negatively but the generation of novel & useful ideas serves to partially restore the damaged self-image of individuals experiencing shame. 

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Art enables reflective attitudes re: the environment, promotes inclusivity & social justice & provides an outlet for emotional expression. Creativity is essential to develop sustainable technologies & systems. 

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Sensory information from all sensory modalities boosts creativity in different ways. As a rich multi-sensory experience, eating nourishes not only our bodies but also our mental well-being and creativity.

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Creativity is the origination of novel ideas, solutions & visions between a person & a situation. Trust is a key precursor to performance, helping forge relationships & creative collaboration.


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Intractable failures can leave managers feeling inadequate with low sense-of-self. Managers need not only to learn from failure but also to tolerate failure, that is, to fail well. 

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