
Unexpected Interruptions, Idle Time, and Creativity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Surprises interruptions, with idle time, significantly increase employees’ creative performance due to continued thinking about work/goals, enabling idea incubation.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Incubation
Organization Science
T. G. Schweisfurth & A. Greul
May 31, 2023
Transformational Creativity: The Link between Creativity, Wisdom, and the Solution of Global Problems
Transformational creativity is creativity deployed to make a positive, meaningful & potentially enduring difference to the world, compared to transactional creativity, creativity deployed in search of a reward.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #PositiveChange
Philosophies
Robert J. Sternberg
May 27, 2023
Leisure Activities, Creative Actions and Emotional Creativity
People who engage in leisure activities & daily creativity (e.g. entertaining a child, solving daily problems) achieve higher scores in creative actions, novelty & self-perception of creativity.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #DailyCreativity
Thinking Skills and Creativity
R. C. Elisondo, G. Soroa & B. Flores
May 24, 2023
Response Inhibition Partially Mediates the Relationship Between Emotional States and Creative Divergent Thinking
People can unlock their creative potential & reach new heights of achievement by embracing irritation & using it as a tool to inspire fresh ideas and methods.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #ResponseInhibition
Creativity Research Journal
R. Khalil, L. Lin, A. A. Karim & B. Godde
May 23, 2023
Factors affecting the efficacy of short stories as science communication tools
Using narrative approaches to science communication has 3 benefits: engagement, persuasion & learning/memory retention).
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Narrative
Journal of Science Communication
M. Irani & E. Weitkamp
May 20, 2023
Exploring integrated ArtScience experiences to foster nature connectedness through head, heart and hand
Art experiences can ignite the imagination, challenge conformity to norms/worldviews & allow us to envision multiple, empathic ways of being in the world.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Compassion
People and Nature
C. Renowden, T. Beer & Luis Mata
May 19, 2023
Sweet ideas: How the sensory experience of sweetness impacts creativity
The sensory experience of sweetness facilitates performance on tasks that require cognitive flexibility, but does not increase performance on non-creative tasks.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Sweet
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
L. Xu., R. Mehta., & J.A. Hoegg .
May 18, 2023
The Narcissism of Ghosting
How you leave relationships, creates an emotional residue that accumulates inside you. A decision to honor the end of a relationship, to take personal responsibility for actions that promote mutual healing, leave vestiges that build strength and positivity.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Ghosting
Psychology Today
Leigh W. Jerome
May 17, 2023
The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space
People perceive a large difference in color to be less than the sum of the incremental differences between two widely separated shades – demonstrating a principle of diminishing returns.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Perception
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
R. Bujack, E. Teti, J. Miller, & T. L. Turton
May 16, 2023
Collaborative Creativity
Group-based creativity is more importance than individual brilliant ideas because creative collaboration develops the abilities to take initiative, make decisions & interact constructively together.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Collaborate
Psychology and Philosophy of Creativity
Bengt Köping Olsson
May 15, 2023
Emotional Intelligence and Creative Self-Efficacy among Gifted Children: Mediating Effect of Self-Esteem and Moderating Effect of Gender
Creative self-efficacy predicts creative activities & achievements. Emotional intelligence significantly predicts emotional intelligence & creative self-efficacy with self-esteem plays a mediating role.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #SelfEfficacy
Journal of Intelligence
X. Chen & L. Cheng
May 14, 2023
The influence of music environment on conceptual design creativity
Listening to music promotes overall design creativity on the novelty dimension, but does not effectively promote divergent thinking or impair convergent thinking.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Music
Frontiers in Psychology
T. Xia, Y. Sun, Y. An & L.Li
May 13, 2023
Creativity across the lifespan: changes with age and with dementia
Creativity appears relatively stable in older age, with exception of those creativity skills that are affected by abstract reasoning (SPM), which appear susceptible to aging.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Aging
BMC Geriatrics
S. D. Ross, et al.
May 12, 2023
The Cognitive Benefits of Psychedelics
While psychedelics such as psilocybin & MDMA impair the encoding of memories that rely on recalling specific details, they can enhance the encoding of memories that rely on familiarity.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Hallucinogens
Neuroscience News
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
May 10, 2023
Three Keys to Creative Resilience to Help Turn Obstacles Into Opportunities
The ability to change how we frame our experiences & beliefs about any given situation is key to creative resilience. Reframing helps us to see situations from a different perspective to discover new insights.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Resilience
Creativity at Work
May 9, 2023
Why creativity is just knowledge - and what that means for schools
What we call creativity is simply the re-arranging & re-configuring of your current mental structures in order to build a new mental structure that matches and addresses a relevant problem.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #ProblemSolving
tes magazine
Jared Cooney Horvath
May 8, 2023
Abolitionist creativity - How intellectual property can hack digital power
By seizing the means of imaginative production, we can transform creativity into a collective liberation tool that disrupts & overturns the very regimes of digital power that enclose and exploit it.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Abolitionist
tni
J. C. Vizoso & C. Byrnes
May 7, 2023
Dismantling gender roles through gender fluidity in fashion and beauty
Brands are embracing a spectrum of diversity in fashion & beauty that is helping dismantle restrictive gender roles through gender fluidity & allowing individuals more authentic expression
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Fashion
eInsights
Umashan Naidoo
May 6, 2023
The sexual selection of creativity: A nomological approach
Creativity is related with enhanced phenotypic plasticity, dopaminergic release & testosterone levels in both sexes. Evidence shows that creativity is sexy: it is considered attractive in potential mating partners.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Evolution
Frontiers in Psychology
Fe. C. Novaes & J. C. Natividade
May 5, 2022
Beyond Gender: The Future of Being Human
Relational Space Gallery presents ~
Beyond Gender: The Future of Being Human
Opening night - Thursday, June 22nd
(Exhibition runs June 22, 23, 24th, 2023)
547 West 27th St Suite 201, NYC (hosted by Ceres Gallery)
For more information:
https://www.relational-space.org/beyond-gender
Relational Space
Leigh W. Jerome
April 4, 2023
Igniting Creativity: Unlocking the Power of Divergent Thinking
Thinking creatively cultivates new possibilities which in turn, facilitates new outcomes, nurtures relationships, builds trust & enables your most authentic self to come forward.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Authentic
Leaders
Vanessa Leikvoll
May 2, 2023
Creative development, self-esteem and barriers to creativity in university students of education according to their participation in artistic activities
Youth participation in artistic activities (music, performance, visual arts) improve academic performance, narrative & graphic creativity & future professional practice.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Performance
Thinking Skills and Creativity
Helena Chacón-López & Ana Maeso-Broncano
May 1, 2023
Two Years of the COVID-19 Crisis: Anxiety, Creativity and the Everyday
Normal anxiety encourages a proactive life, inspiring change through new daily strategies. Neurotic anxiety prevents this, as it tends to replicate the ordinary, the known & the familiar.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Anxiety
societies
Raffaela Puggioni
April 29, 2023
Thinking outside the box helps build social connections: The role of creative mindsets in reducing daily rudeness
Awareness of co-workers as being integral to the creative process increases social closeness & reduces instigated rudeness towards, as well as perceived rudeness from, those co-workers.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #CoCreate
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1
T. A. Foulk, V, Venkataramani, R. Cao & S. Krishnan
April 27, 2023
Distraction, flow and the creative mind
The best creative tasks to induce flow are able to incorporate a wandering mind (eg musical improvisation/writing/painting) so you follow a train of thought & make productive use of it to achieve your aims.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Flow
IAI News
Tom Cochrane
April 26, 2023
The Effects of Routinization on Radical and Incremental Creativity: The Mediating Role of Mental Workloads
Routine has a positive effect on creativity when it acts as a mediating mechanism that reduces cognitive workload & allows employees more creative efforts in a specific direction.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Routine
Int J Environ Res Public Health
H. Chae & J. Park,
April 25, 2023
Love and Magic: How Love Powers Creativity
Love & creativity go hand in hand because when you create, you demonstrate your love — for the supported cause, the ideas you’re promoting, for the talents you have & for the world as a whole.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Love
Design.org
Ward Andrews
April 24, 2023
Scientific Creativity as Combinatorial Process
Creativity is a recombinatory process, taking novel bits of data & combining them uniquely, to create something new - an idea is creative if it is novel, useful & surprising.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Ideas
Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Dean Keith Simonton
April 23, 2023
How Times of Crisis Serve as a Catalyst for Creative Action: An Agentic Perspective
Uncertainty disrupts sense of control - when people feel they have the ability to work through the uncertainty by thinking & acting creatively, stress is reduced & creative action is more likely.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Control
Frontiers in Psychology
Ronald A. Beghetto
April 22, 2023
What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Fostering Creativity
We're moving to a creativity economy, where what matters is innovation in things that computers can't achieve, such as flexible thinking, blending knowledge, exploring consequences & innovative design.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #CognitiveFlexibility
The Journal
Dennis Pierce
April 21, 2023
Designing for Creativity: What Does Neuroscience Say?
Interdisciplinary teams including neuroscientists, psychologist, & architects increases the likelihood for spaces designed on research findings that support curiosity, serendipity & creativity.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Collaborate
Venetian Letter
Natalia Olszewska & Marta Wierusz
April 20, 2023
Creativity at Rest: Exploring Functional Network Connectivity of Creative Experts
Creative thinking may be related to, though not fully redundant with, the ability to vividly imagine the future, observed through brain connectivity profiles of highly creative people.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Future
Network Neuroscience
W. Orwig, et al
April 19, 2023
Delving into the role of mindfulness on the relationship among creativity, anxiety, and boredom of young EFL learners
By fostering mindfulness, instructors & learners form relationships with a positive, constructive connection. Mindfulness enables instructors & learners to gain efficiency, creativity & productivity.
#RelationalSpace #Art #Science #Mindfullness
Heliyon
Ling Cheng
April 17, 2023