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Collaborations between science and art are happening more and more frequently. Relational Space identifies relevant stories and initiatives around the globe and reports them here to inform and inspire our community.

Extracurricular arts: Effects on creativity and academics

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

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Creativity

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Journal of Creativity

C. S. Moreno Cortez & J. N. Montes

April 29, 2025

Investigating the impact of situational cognition, emotions, and self-efficacy on creative thinking and collaborative intention in metaverse teaching scene

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

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Creativity

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Thinking Skills and Creativity

T.-L. He, et al.

April 28, 2025

Updating the Standard Definition of Creativity to Account for the Artificial Creativity of AI

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.

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #AI

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Creativity Research Journal

Mark A. Runco

April 25, 2025

The value of creative activities in the recreational field: the grounded theory perspective

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

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Transformative

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Creativity Studies

Lisauskienė, D. & Leščinskij, R.

April 24, 2025

Organizing Creativity With Constraints—Insights From Popular Music Songwriting Teams

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.

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Collaboration

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Journal of Management Inquiry

T. Theel & J. Sydow

April 23, 2025

Rethinking the contribution of creative economies in Africa to sustainable development. An empirical research of creative intermediaries in Accra’s contemporary art sector

Creative intermediaries are change agents who address societal deficiencies & introduce regenerative solutions that harmonize societal development objectives, address deficiencies & introduce regenerative solutions that harmonize development objectives holistically. 

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Change

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International Journal of Cultural Policy

J. D. Mensah

April 22, 2025

Teaching for paradigm shifts: Supporting the drivers of radical creativity in management education

Radical creativity (disruptive & interdisciplinary) is scarcely identified as a distinct type of creativity among business educators—instead, paradigm-preserving incremental creativity is the dominant trend. 

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Radical

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Educational Research Review

V. Eloranta, E. Hakanen & C. Shaw

April 21, 2025

Cognitive and Motor Creativity in the Same Task Environment: An Exploratory Study in Pool

Novices & experts are equally creative in cognitive tasks as long as appropriateness is not considered. Experts are more creative in motor tasks. If appropriateness is included, experts are more creative in both the cognitive & motor tasks.

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Appropriateness

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Creativity Research Journal

A. Moraru, et al.

April 18, 2025

On creativity and meaning: The intricate relationship between creativity and meaning in life and creativity as the means to repay existential debt

There is a complex and reciprocal interactions between creativity & culture, where a sense of meaninglessness negatively impacts creativity and having meaning in life promotes creativity. 

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Meaning

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Communicative & Integrative Biology

Tobore Onojighofia Tobore

April 17, 2025

When the creative well dries up–burnout syndrome and art block in artists’ sample

In burnout research, ‘art block’ is significantly associated with the following cognitive emotion regulation strategies: self-blame, rumination catastrophizing, positive refocusing, positive reappraisal and refocus on planning.

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Burnout

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Thinking Skills and Creativity

K. Głaziewicz & K. Golonka

April 16, 2025

Emotional Reactions to Idea Evaluation: Creative Perseverance and Evaluating Others

The valence of the idea evaluation is related to pos/neg emotional reactions, moderated by self-evaluations of own creativity & indicating whether one persevere on the creative task and/or retaliate in their evaluations of others’ ideas.

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Ideas

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Creativity Research Journal

T. L. Friedrich, T. Kiefer & D. Eubanks

April 15, 2025

Relationships between physical environments and creativity: A scoping review

The environment influences creativity, with visual stimulation & an interactive, motivational space constituting creativity’s most significant physical aspects. 

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Environment

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Thinking Skills and Creativity

J. Hwa Lee & S. Lee

April 14, 2025

Unlocking unconventional pathways: How creativity may lead to unethical choices when wisdom takes a backseat

Creativity can yield both beneficial & malevolent outcomes. Wisdom plays a pivotal role in mitigating the link between creativity & unethical decision-making.

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Wisdom

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Journal of Creativity

J Wu, Y. Wang, Y. Zheng & C. Zhang

April 11, 2025

The After-Glow of Flow: Neural Correlates of Flow in Musicians

There are changes in brain activity that occur immediately after the flow experience in musical performance, suggesting a continued influence of flow even after an activity has ended.

 #Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Flow

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Creativity Research Journal

Tan, J., Di Bernardi Luft, C., & Bhattacharya, J.

April 10, 2025

“Viewing puzzles as two-faced: theoretical and practical implications for Puzzle-based Learning”

Utilizing puzzles in learning is engaging, motivating & enhances development of critical thinking & creativity skills.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Puzzles

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Thinking Skills and Creativity

M. M. Fontes, et al.

April 9, 2025

The power of self-forgiveness: the dual impact of shame on creativity

High levels of shame predict better creative performance, but a lack of self-forgiveness inhibits the creative benefits derived from shame.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Shame

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BMC Psychology

Ye, T. & Su, H.

April 08, 2025

Harnessing the maker movement as an important tool for the inclusion of racialized/marginalized women into the innovation and creativity paradigm

Maker-spaces greatly support marginalized women in innovation, who are often overlook their contributions, due to enhanced knowledge access & knowledge sharing dynamics.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Women

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African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development

Suzanne Nyehita

April 07, 2025

Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity

Creative thinking often improves during incubation when attention shifts to mind-wandering. Poetry reading during the incubation phase enhances associative thought (but not the the generation of novel ideas)

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Poetry

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Creativity Research Journal

S. Chaudhuri & J. Bhattacharya

April 4, 2025

Social Skills and Creativity as Elements That Enhance Resilience in Adolescence

Strengthening social skills & promoting creativity enhance resilience in overcoming the adversities and challenges faced by young people during adolescence.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Adolescence

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Behavioral Sciences

A. G. Moreno & M. del Mar Molero Jurado

April 3, 2025

The influence of generative artificial intelligence on creative cognition of design students: a chain mediation model of self-efficacy and anxiety

AI positively affects design students’ innovative thinking, with self-efficacy and anxiety reduction serving as significant mediators.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #AI

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Frontiers in Psychology

Y. Hwang & Y. Wu

April 2, 2025

Relationships of sensory processing sensitivity with creativity and empathy in an adult sample

Sensory Processing Sensitivity & Aesthetic Sensitivity are associated with creativity and empathy. Strengthening these positive aspects helps highly sensitive people flourish.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Empathy

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Frontiers in Psychology

B. A. P. Laros-van Gorkom, C. G. Damatac, I. Stevelmans & C. U. Greven

March 31, 2025

Poetic Break: Incubation for Associative Creativity

Creative thinking often improves during incubation when attention shifts to mind-wandering. Poetry reading during the incubation phase enhances associative thought (but not the the generation of novel ideas)

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Poetry

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Creativity Research Journal

S. Chaudhuri & J. Bhattacharya

March 28, 2025

Impact of knowledge-sharing culture on organizational creativity: integrating explicit and tacit knowledge sharing as mediators

Tacit knowledge, rather than explicit knowledge, partially mediates the relationship between a knowledge-sharing culture & organizational creativity.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Tacit

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Journal of Knowledge Management

T. Yıldız, B. B. Akan, U. Sığrı & M. Dabic

March 27, 2025

Learning to Think in a Made-Up World

I have a new article published in Psychology Today: Learning to Think in a Made-up World. Enjoy.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Thinking

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Psychology Today

Leigh W. Jerome, Ph.D.

March 26, 2025

Time to Innovate: The Role of Input Incentives in Creative Production

Incremental input incentives, which reward effort above a certain threshold, increase intrinsic motivation and prove to be more cost-efficient than level-based input incentives.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Incentives

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SSRN

K. Blaufus, M. Milde, M. Schaefer & M. Schröder

March 25, 2025

De-sync: disruption of synchronization as a key factor in individual and collective creative processes

The’ disruption of established patterns’ plays a key role in creative processes, providing opportunities for reorganization into novel functional patterns to discover, explore & learn. Agency is a form of disruption.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Agency

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BMC Neuroscience

J. Laroche, A. Bachrach & L. Noy

March24, 2025

The role of psychological safety and psychological capital in linking leadership curiosity to employee creative performance

It is essential for leaders to instill a curious mindset in the work environment as leadership displays of curiosity have a substantial impact on employees’ creative performance, psychological capital & a climate of psychological safety. 

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Curiosity

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Cogent Social Sciences

B. R. Mutony, R. Fredheim & T. Slåtten

March 21, 2025

Exploring the interplay between well-being, mindfulness, creativity, and work engagement among EFL teachers

Mindfulness strongly links to teacher’s work engagement. Creativity positively correlates with work engagement, underscoring its value. Well-being enhances work engagement, fostering supportive teaching environments.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Teaching

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Thinking Skills and Creativity

R. Zhi & Y. Wang

March 20, 2025

Investigating the impact of situational cognition, emotions, and self-efficacy on creative thinking and collaborative intention in metaverse teaching scene

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

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #SelfEfficacy

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Thinking Skills and Creativity

T.-L. He, et al.

March 19, 2025

Habitual physical activity is related to more creative activities and achievements

The positive effects of habitual physical activity may generalize from better health, cognition, & creative ideation performance outcomes to more real-life creative behavior such as cooking original dishes & making music.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Activity

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Nature

C. Rominger, et al.

March 18, 2025

The Contributions of Creativity to the Learning Process within Educational Approaches for Sustainable Development and/or Ecosocial Perspectives: A Systematic Review

Creativity contributes to learning by transforming the student experience through the identification, understanding, appropriation & applicability of concepts that stimulate imagination, interdisciplinary, intercultural integration & experimentation. 

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Learning

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education sciences

U. Harvey López, M. Vázquez-Vílchez & P. Salmerón-Vílchez

March 14, 2025

Creative webs: decoding the creativity potential of Twitter followers

Social interactions significantly shape the creative process. Individuals with diverse social networks are more likely to access unique information, thereby transforming creativity into a dynamic exchange of ideas.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Networks

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Frontiers in Psychology

Tsahi Hayat

March 13, 2025

Creativity in Motion: Examining the Creative Potential System and Enriched Movement Activities as a Way to Ignite It

Combining creativity & movement science demonstrates the potential for well-designed movement interventions to ignite creative potential for individuals & overcome the tendency to remain anchored in a state of inertia.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Movement

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Frontiers in Psychology

V. Richard, D. Holder & J. Cairney

March 12, 2025

A neurocognitive framework of attention and creativity: Maximizing usefulness and novelty via directed and undirected pathways

Time spent experiencing creative goal-directed attention, followed by undirected attention, is the optimal sequence for maximizing both the usefulness and novelty of creative outputs. 

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Attention

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The Journal of Organizational Behavior

G. B. Yeo, et al.

March 11, 2025

Creativity gain or drain: The dual association between boundary-spanning and creativity

Boundary-spanning behavior is a crucial catalyst for creativity, providing new resources, ideas & inspiration, but also poses challenges, potentially depleting cognitive resources & inducing stress that hinders creativity.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Boundaries

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Acta Psychologica

M. Tang, et al.

March 10, 2025

Culture and creativity, skills building, and growth: what have we missed?

Integrating culture & creativity into economic growth models can unveil a so far poorly understood driver of skills building & its important productivity & social sustainability implications.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Culture

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Nature humanities and social sciences communications

P. L. Sacco, P. Bialowolski & D. Weziak-Bialowolska

March 7, 2025

Cultivating creativity: predictive brains and the enlightened room problem

Creativity emerges from various degrees of interplay between predictive brains & changing environments: ones that repeatedly move the goalposts for our own error-minimizing machinery. 

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Uncertainty

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Royal Society Publishing

A. Constant, K. J. Friston & A. Clark

March 6, 2025

An Art-Science Perspective on Artificial Intelligence Creativity: From Problem Finding to Materiality and Embodied Cognition

Human creativity is based on observing, imaging, abstracting, analogizing, playacting, modeling & body thinking. AI systems are currently only capable of pattern forming/recognition, so are not yet capable of true creativity.
#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #AI

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Journal of Creativity

Robert Root-Bernstein

March 5, 2025

Does receiving knowledge catalyze creativity? A dyadic‐level contingency model of knowledge type and psychological closeness on knowledge elaboration

Receiving tacit knowledge leads the recipient to elaborate the received knowledge, which in turn boosts the recipient's creativity. This relationship is stronger when the recipient's psychological closeness to the partner is higher.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373291794_Does_receiving_knowledge_catalyze_creativity_A_dyadic-level_contingency_model_of_knowledge_type_and_psychological_closeness_on_knowledge_elaboration

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Tacit

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Journal of Organizational Behavior

C. Ling, W. He, Y. Gong & W. Liu

March 4, 2025

There is no creativity without uncertainty: Dubito Ergo Creo

Uncertainty is experienced as destabilizing & results in doubt. Doubt & uncertainty, when perceived as actionable, can open-up a horizon of new possibilities for creative activity.

#Art #Science #RelationalSpace #Uncertainty

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Journal of Creativity

Ronald A. Beghetto

March 3, 2025

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