Effective problem framing fosters “aha!” moments by encouraging sensitivity to stimuli & intuitive associations, enabling teams to navigate ambiguity & seize new opportunities.

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Asking questions is a key for creativity & the creative process. People with higher originality & fluency are more likely to ask open-ended questions, possibility thinking questions & temporal thinking questions.

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Oxytocin (OT), a neuropeptide pivotal in social and reproductive behaviors, exerts a dissociable influence on creativity contingent upon an individual’s motivational tendencies

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There is a synergy between digital innovation, innovation culture & creativity that is crucial for fostering happiness at work, although the effect varies depending on company size.

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Creative ideation depends on forging links between existing memory traces. The processing of non-central events & information anchored in complex naturalistic experiences predicts behavioral & neural traits of creativity. 

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Positive mood & visual presentation enhance creative idea generation. Positive mood enhances cognitive flexibility, facilitating the production of a greater number of non-redundant ideas.

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Creativity stands out as the most influential competence for ‘entrepreneurial intention’ with opportunity recognition, networking & resilience having a positive impact.

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A significant positive correlation exists between critical thinking & creativity, suggesting a meaningful relationship between these constructs. Females score higher in both constructs compared to males.

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Cognitive flexibility, the ability to shift between different concepts & think in multiple dimensions, is vital in fostering creativity. Art is a catalyst for cognitive flexibility, challenging conventional patterns to foster an innovative mindset.

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Creative flourishing is the harmonious experiential confluence of creative agency (drive to create), creative self-efficacy (belief in one's creative ability & flow proneness (tendency to experience flow during creative activities).

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Generative AI augments performance without fostering real creative ability, leading to a creativity illusion. Upon AI withdrawal, creative performance drops remarkably while content homogeneity continues to increase.

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Scents with invigorating properties influence cognitive performance by increasing attention, with an indirect effect of the modulation of emotions that is related to olfactory preference (i.e. pleasantness).

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Cognitively diverse teams outperform high intelligence (IQ) teams in problem solving, while businesses with at least one woman in their board of directors financially outperform ones with all male boards. 

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Creative experiences may enhance brain health. The higher the level of expertise & performance, the greater the connectivity linked to creativity & delay in brain age.

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Participating in science, STEAM projects foster learning engagement & improves student learning outcomes, with creativity styles (high active engagement in generating ideas; high flow) playing a critical role. 

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Corporate social responsibility is a direct driver of creativity & a mediator for fairness & empowerment emphasizing the importance of CSR initiatives, equitable practices & employee empowerment in fostering creativity & innovation within organizations.

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While the concept of artistic genius & originality are tangled with social & cultural context, creativity is also a personal psychological process, with the internalized sociocultural context acting as a proxy for external fields & domains.

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Creative problem-solving is amplified in 2 ways: a change in thought processes or in the structure/functioning of the brain. Building cognitive skills, activating the subconscious & recalibrating the brain via training have potent effects optimizing ingenuity.

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I have a new article published in Psychology Today: The Weight of Silence (Agency, Belonging, and the Power of Speaking Up)

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Micro-processes, small-scale interactions & behaviors within organizations (collaboration, information exchange, & problem-solving within creative teams) are essential for creative development & fostering organizational creativity.

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Interpersonal feedback facilitates both the acquisition & transfer of creativity. Applying feedback positively correlates with participants’ creativity acquisition performance & ignoring feedback negatively correlates with it.

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By incorporating creative thinking techniques in leadership, job training, and skills development, managers can leverage creative behaviors for either appropriate or original solutions or both to benefit their organizations.

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Painting selectively reduces anxiety & improves cognitive engagement & physiological reactivity, highlighting emotional improvement during artistic production & benefits of art-making specific to the regulation of anxiety.

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Ethical leadership is a strong predictor of belongingness and psychological safety that helps employees to be creative. 

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Frustration intolerance acts as a psychological demand increasing vulnerability to exhaustion and disengagement, while emotional intelligence serves as a personal resource supporting self-regulation, motivation, and persistence. 

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Shame stimulates creative thinking as a response to inner conflict. Self-forgiveness is a key mechanism in the process. Without self-forgiveness, individuals become more closed off & repressed, thus limiting creative potential. 

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Both emotions and self-efficacy positively influence creative thinking and collaborative intention. Self-efficacy positively mediates the association between emotions and creative thinking. 

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Group creativity emerges from Flexibility, Persistence, and Convergence pathways. The convergence pathway enhances group creativity not only by itself, but also by stimulating the flexibility and persistence pathways.

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Creative self-concept is more strongly linked to creative activities than creative achievements & is associated with more openness, self-esteem & self-concept clarity, as well as more narcissism & lower self-comparison tendencies.

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Please enjoy a new video from Relational Space showcasing our Art+Science exhibition in London, UK Bodies:Transdisciplinarity as a Power

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Creativity is fostered through divergent tasks, ie construction of broad questions requiring justification, comparison & evaluation of problem-solving strategies.

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Everyday creativity is a personal, non-linear journey through 3 emotional states: varied emotional ups & downs; both personal & collective aspects; & a sense of achievement, synchronicity & connection to something bigger.

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Foreign language learning not only helps students acquire linguistic & cultural knowledge but also enhances their creativity, especially with individuals who have high openness to experience & extroversion.

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Exposure to natural environments, even in the form of videos, enhances creative thinking, particularly in the verbal domain & activation of flexible mindsets, especially when fascination & other positive emotions are evoked.

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Contributing to their creative endeavors, artists have a greater propensity for aberrant salience experiences - when a dopamine system causes a person to assign significance to neutral or ordinary stimuli, thoughts, or experiences.

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Creativity is fostered through divergent tasks, ie construction of broad questions requiring justification, comparison & evaluation of problem-solving strategies.

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Openness to experience, education & creative potential are significantly related to discretion, a particular kind of awareness & more specifically, to an individual's intentional engagement in the creative process.

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4 learning approaches where students creatively construct knowledge rather than pursuing one correct answer: Creative agency over learning; Affective/embodied pathways; Relational ecologies; Learning by doing/making

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Plural creativities constitute creative practices in cultural projects, based on creative relationality, which leads to: creative playing driven by affection, creative boosting driven by criticism & creative inspiration driven by constrains.

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Familiar peer relationships foster cooperative creativity & stranger relationships enhance competitive performance.

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