Storytelling is an organizing structure for transformative climate learning, connecting scientific knowledge with lived experience, identity development, emotional processing, cultural/Indigenous knowledge systems & civic engagement. 

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Abuse involves complex psychological strategies beyond physical acts. Dark creativity in Intimate Partner Violence reflects how individuals use imagination & problem-solving in harmful ways to manipulate, control, or harm their partners.

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Collective creativity in cross-sector networks does not depend on convergence. ’Resolution without closure’ shows how networks can remain governable & creatively productive under radical uncertainty & persistent contestation.

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Creativity is influenced more by age, teaching methods & culture than by where a child lives (city or rural), with ages 11-12 showing the highest creativity scores & US and Canada showing greater creativity than other countries.

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Creativity is not singular or static, but a multidimensional neuro-cognitive process of myriad neural systems and individual experiences (e.g. memory, flexibility, motivation, mind wandering).

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Moderate anxiety levels can coexist with or even facilitate flow when they are interpreted as a challenge rather than a threat. Emotional self-regulation, self-efficacy & self-esteem act as key mediating factors.

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Optimized learning spaces, focused on environmental elements, furniture flexibility, resource accessibility & lighting can nurture creativity, promote problem-solving skills & stimulate innovation.

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Walking generates a large increases in divergent thinking (the ability to generate novel & useful ideas), indicating its potential to stimulate creative idea generation.

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Data storytelling represents a promising strategy for mitigating math anxiety & positioning data as a communicative resource to address real-world challenges in society & the marketplace.

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GenAI doesn’t enhance or diminish creative self-efficacy. When AI outputs appear to displace human authorship or obscure individual contributions, people have more uncertainty & reduced confidence; but used as a support tool, it can increase creative self-efficacy.

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The stages of scientific method (define problem, forme hypothesis, experimentation, data analysis, evaluation) nurture scientific creativity via engagement in interdisciplinary, real-world problems demanding innovative solutions.

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Dance can be used for therapeutic purposes in educational settings to promote psychological well-being.
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Creative thinking is most often assessed with quantitative methods which often fall short in capturing the complexity of motivational factors. Qualitative approaches present good opportunities for methodological innovation. 

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By integrating knowledge of giftedness into arts education, educators can more effectively support students in overcoming Artist’s Block & help them fully realize their potential.

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Evidence indicates that strategies to increase young people's access to & engagement with arts & creative activities are an effective avenue through which to protect and improve adolescent mental health & wellbeing

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Happiness broadens thinking & strengthens intrinsic motivation, thereby fostering innovative behavior. While role conflict is traditionally seen as a stressor, under certain conditions it can stimulate reflection & drive unconventional solutions & creative insight. 

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Adult-guided play interventions produce a significantly larger effect on creativity for elementary students compared to child-guided play for bolstering creative skills essential for future innovation. 
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The chances of being struck by a creative insight can be increased by sleeping on a problem. Sounds can be incorporated during REM sleep to change dream content & increase problem solving.

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There is no consensus among scholars as to whether text generated by GenAI is original or creative, as an ongoing and changeable discourse continues regarding AI plagiarism and creativity.

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Psychological well-being is a strategic tool for fostering positive workplace cultures able to reduce psychological strain & enhance employee satisfaction. This, in turn, has the can enhance creativity, innovation & retention. 

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More opportunities to connect with nature, especially in the outdoors, helps to stimulate creativity in a wide range of settings including education, the creative arts & the workplace.

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Before You Hit Record…The Psychological and Cultural Consequences of Filming Others

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Walking results in a large increase in divergent thinking, indicating its potential as an intervention to stimulate creative idea generation.

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There is a positive & significant link between emotional intelligence & creativity. Creative interventions that simultaneously target creativity & emotional intelligence is encouraged.

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The effect of peer feedback on students' creativity is significantly greater than that of teacher feedback; but Interventions incorporating both peer % teacher feedback simultaneously yield an even stronger effect.

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AI enhances convenience & speed, but is associated with dampened cognitive engagement & may result in an increased reliance on the tool & decreased creative confidence, triggering a cycle of dependency å reduced self-efficacy.

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Inventive Thinking is an inherent human capacity, when cultivated, manifest as a competency integrating: creativity, higher-order cognition & dispositional traits (e.g. curiosity, risk-taking, self-regulation), enabling innovative solutions to complex & novel problems with sociocultural awareness. 

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Creative design thinking develops through 6 pathways in the creative unfolding phase: analogy, blending, negation, reverse, conversion & restoration.

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Educators need to proactively design repeated sense making opportunities involving reflections & vicarious learning to improve students’ cognition and perception regarding mistakes and failure.

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Creativity is vital for adaptable motor learning in early childhood. Higher motor creativity links to better skill application to new tasks.

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Positive emotions can broaden interpersonal openness & help build the collective resources needed to sustain collaboration when there are uneven contributions.

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

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Mindfulness is vital in fostering employee creativity being a key motivational mechanism & performance feedback being a crucial boundary condition.

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A relaxed state of mind or suppressed self-referential thinking are important factors for one’s best creative performance & decision making, with effective creativity training promoting these patterns in brain activation.

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Children's creativity is hindered by competition, physical stress, & demanding tasks; but competition tends to enhance adolescents' creativity.

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Achievement motivation influences the creativity tendency, suggesting that universities could enhance creativity cultivation by boosting students’ motivation for achievement & their ability to cope with setbacks. 

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Teams that engage in reflexivity & information integration produce higher-quality decisions, demonstrating that positive emotions broaden interpersonal openness & build collective resources that sustain collaboration.

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In contrast to language-centered tasks, GenAI models face challenges in visual domains, where creativity depends on perceptual nuance & contextual sensitivity, human capacities that are not readily transferable from language models.

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Social comparison is positively related to online malevolent creativity through social network envy. The negative effects of SNS social comparison (helplessness, anxiety, depression etc) are accentuated by individuals’ ruminations.

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Strategies to address creative apprehensiveness, include creating an atmosphere of ease & equality, prioritizing social & physical preparation, encouraging student-led contributions & modeling authenticity & vulnerability.

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