Are there unstudied or undervalued ways of knowing? Many aspects of creativity e.g. remoteness of ideas, associative thinking, flexible/richer semantic memory structure, etc. are ripe areas for study of creativity & complexity.

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Integrating various academic fields boosts creative problem-solving in real-life scenarios & increases focus on sustainability & cross-cultural collaboration for global interconnectedness & adaptive problem-solving.

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The creative process has often been conceived as a linear process but this view is inconsistent with conceptions in the creative community. Creators more closely align with a creative process that is nonlinear, iterative & improvisational. 

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The arts expose us to simulated experiences that explore alternative social realities, allowing the predictive machinery of the brain to hone its skills through exposure to a wider array of potentially relevant social scenarios. 

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I have published a new article in Psychology Today: How Do You Know What You Know? Exploring different types of knowledge and ways of knowing - Enjoy and let me know your thoughts.
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Why go to galleries when in periods of creative incubation? Feelings of being moved during art appreciation are positively correlated with feelings of inspiration in creative tasks.

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Individuals assign subjective values to ideas, balancing originality & adequacy, according to individual preferences & impact their creative abilities.

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AI tools facilitate human creativity by enlightening the creative process, building interfaces for exploring ideas  & designing technological affordances able to support the development of new creative practices.

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Academia/education is a complex system of various disciplinary nodes, with the edges representing the flow of unifying ideas between them & connections allowing for flow in these paths for increased creativity.

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Delighted to share our newly published paper:

Making transdisciplinarity work for complex systems: A dynamic model for blending diverse knowledges.

Complex social issues cannot be approached from a single discipline but require knowledge spillover from the intersection of multiple fields, disciplines and cultures.The paper presents a transdisciplinary framework designed to blend different knowledges and resources via a non-hierarchical, self-organizing collaboration to foster the integration of scholarly expertise, artistic expression and lived experiences to engage broad audiences in knowledge exchange.

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Humans are often creative because for the same reasons as other animals are – to adapt to external threats, to solve ill-defined problems that block progress, & to gain (im)material rewards.

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Chaos physicalization generates artistic & scientific novelty, transforming data into a source of creativity & design innovation, with cross-disciplinary synergy among artists, scientists & tech acting as a catalyst.

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Power makes individuals more creative, because the powerful are more willing to break with convention. 
Low power individuals can be as creative as high power individuals if given time for performance warm-up.

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Both making & viewing art reduce negative affect equally; however, actively making art improves positive affect more than the passive experience of viewing of art.

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The global youth mental health crisis require effective solutions that accessible, adaptable & scalable. Empirically based arts & culture strategies are solid tools for promoting youth mental health and well-being.

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Insight during problem solving is beneficial to long-term memory formation because novel answers have an advantage in the competition of thoughts, including more fixation on the target region of interest.

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The new intellectual free trade are our own thought processes, judging, deciding & creating - importing & exporting from one intellectual discipline to another, to solve problems & achieve goals in outer environments of great complexity.

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The impact of arts in nature supports children's wellbeing by the development of self-confidence & self-esteem; agency; slowness & calmness; & connectedness with nature. 

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Brain capital connects & fuses disciplines (ie transdisciplinarity) offering a unique common goal for collaboration. An economic transition to brain-health economy is needed to make progress on SDGs.
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Engaging in abstract thinking during the mid-adolescence predicts brain interconnectivity & personal & social well-being in adulthood, especially key is engaging in complex perspective & emotion taking, through civic-mindedness.

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There are 4 central features of methodological creativity/innovations: plurality, methodological & epistemological inventiveness, academic/personal intersections & relational scaffolding.

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Creativity is a complex interplay of creative competence, commitment to the creative task & concern for others in the creative process & able to improve the well-being of oneself, other people, societies & the planet. 

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Abstract color & line drawings convey emotions based on systematic use of certain colors & line features that depict each basic emotion (e.g., anger tends to be redder & more densely drawn; sadness more blue & contains more vertical lines).

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Culture and the Arts foster interconnectedness and understanding, emphasizing the need for ethical and inclusive approaches in our interconnected world.

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Highly repetitive music can have a calming effect, help reduce anxieties & increase engagement in children with sensory sensitivities

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An inclusive leadership style has a positive effect on knowledge sharing, enhances innovative climate & inspires creative teaching.

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Creativity & humor share common psychological & neurobiological processes that support older people in facing problems & contribute to personal well-being.

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People who think of themselves as more creative tend to be more optimistic, have higher self-esteem & score higher on trait Curious (Openness), but lower on trait Adjustment (low Neuroticism) & trait Competitive (low Agreeableness). 

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Generative AI as a primary creativity tool risks blocking the pathway to disruptive creativity because it produces only incremental novelty based on the already known. 

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Engaging in crafts & do-it-yourself (DIY) projects offer beneficial opportunities for creativity, self-expression & sense of accomplishment, which can all have a positive effect on mental health.

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To foster creativity, engage in more dialogical, socio-cultural & collaborative work, involving multiple perspectives & possibility thinking able to address complex challenges. 

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A problem’s subjective difficulty is positively correlated with solution time & this correlation decreases when there is a stronger Aha! experience.

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The performance decrements of creative/cognitive ideation in patients with chronic pain are at least partly attributable to attentional impairments associated with the pain.

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Gender-based expectations appears to be the primary cause of risk-taking impact, a key creativity-relevant skill, suggesting implications creativity, agency and leadership.

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Studying children’s creative processes is challenging because of their still-developing meta-cognition, essential component to the creative process; but, children can explain their process of generating ideas in the vast majority of inquiries.

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Creativity does not exist as its own, specialized entity in the brain. Instead, its neurocognitive mechanisms are distributed, embedded, and varied; that is, creativity is everywhere and multiply realizable.

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While creativity may manifest in creative moments, creativity is best considered as a pattern of behaviour that allows these actions to emerge.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13573322.2024.2324374

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Mind wandering facilitates the creative incubation effect in individuals with limited working memory capacity, particularly in low cognitive load conditions.
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Dissent may lead to negative feelings among group members, but the dissent experience can increase the subsequent tendencies in all group members toward creative or divergent thinking. 

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Art that provides opportunities for ‘bearing witness’ plays a crucial knowledge-transmitting function, one which enables art to engage in creative activism.

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