Engaging in creative tasks appear to be useful as a distractor for regulating negative emotions such as anger and anxiety.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Regulation

Everyday creative identity & creative self-efficacy are closely linked, emerging from the interaction of creative agency & impulse, contextual creative affordances, creative product & sense of creative accomplishment.
#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Identify

Women’s ideas increase in originality during ovulation compared to non-fertile phases of the ovulatory cycle.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Enjoyment

The act of creating engages multiple brain networks that interact to compose an aesthetic triad of sensory-motor, emotion-valuation, and knowledge-meaning processes

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Creating

Intuition functions in ‘hybrid’ states of consciousness, those moments of reverie between ‘real’, focused perception & dreamlike, unfocused fantasy - creativity involves synthesis of the real & fantasized.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Intuition

Innovation in convergence-based collectives necessitates both diverse knowledge & effective integration of that knowledge, especially with mechanisms in place to harness diverse knowledge effectively.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Collaboration

Students from different disciplines better construct their own understandings of ‘professionalism’ when their learning activities are performed in an authentically creative & diverse setting.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Professionalism

By (co)constructing challenging worlds, we effectively expand the space within which our own prediction engines operate & that function as ‘exploration bubbles’ to enable information seeking about science & the arts.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Exploration

The cognitive mechanisms underlying foraging in physical space are recycled when we “forage in mind” for more words, ideas, or memories. Cognition is embodied, grounded in mechanisms for perception & action.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Foraging

I have a new article published in Psychology Today: Rediscovering Wonder: How to Spark Adult Imagination Imagination is a Super-Power able to Boost Creative Potential & Transform Us (read more)

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Imagination

Viewing natural environments stimulates curiosity & fosters flexibility & imagination. Highly natural environments distract our minds from work, restoring attention that can improve unique & diverse creative ideas.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Nature

Sparking close word associations is a useful in breaking participants out of mental fixation (feeling blocked) during creative ideation & divergent thinking.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Associations

For high cognitive flexibility employees, stretch goals (goals beyond what are considered achievable) increase risk taking & lead to more engagement in creative activities; low flexibility employees decrease risk taking & creativity.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Flexibility

Parents’ creative self-concept & their creative activity predict support for creativity in the family & more general balanced & satisfying family relationships. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Parents

Eco-poetry, eco-musicology, and eco-photography are forms of green creativity that can be used in climate change education to enhance climate change education & work toward achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs).

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Eco

Engaging in creative activities offers therapeutic benefits such as emotional expression, self-discovery, social connection, stress reduction & improved mood; & is a catalyst for personal transformation & empowerment.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Creativity

Empathy has a significant positive relationship with problem construction quality & originality, each mediating the relationship between empathy & solution quality & originality.



#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Empathy

REM dreams are characterized by an adversarial process between feedforward & feedback pathways generating new virtual experiences from the combination of old memories, increasing learning & creative insight potential.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #REM

Craft prefigures a type of creativity/innovation that addresses the social & ecological challenges of our economy & society so acts as a source for inspiration to radically re-think current, ingrained notions of creativity & innovation.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Craft

In uncertain circumstances, there is potential for creative learning. Learning to engage with & work through destabilizing experiences positions us to experience a new horizon of creative possibilities. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Uncertainty

Navigating the difficult terrain of grief amid the climate crisis poses profound challenges. The arts are a powerful tool for navigating this historical junction, to reduce pain, regulate emotions & to reveal and express grief. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Grief

Divergent thinking is enhanced through activities like walking at a natural pace but also moderate intensity aerobic exercise & dance. Vigorous intensity aerobic exercise enhance quantity & flexibility of idea generation.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Activity

Curiosity & creativity are central pillars of human growth & invention. Both emanate from the same mechanism of novelty seeking. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Curiosity

Executive functions remain effective via good lifestyle choices & a balanced attentional ecology. Video games & art are examples of how to tap into effortless attention & enhance cognitive performance. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Attention

Divergent Thinking & Cognitive Reserve (flexible thinking) are protective factors in aging, and their effects go beyond cognitive functioning, revealing a positive effect even on some psychological well-being components.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Aging

Arts participation is an effective pathway for individual flourishing, with more diverse & profound arts engagement leading to sustained and widespread happiness.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Flourishing

Student participation in art–science projects enhances science inquiry skills including making observations, planning experiments, developing scientific communication & increasing opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Collaboration

Creative artistic activity facilitates coping with emotions through the acquisition of new insights, self-development or distancing oneself & avoiding difficulties.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Coping

Creative individuals use shorter associative pathways & view remotely related concepts as more related. Paradoxically, creative people exhibit lower activity in salient brain regions, reflecting higher neural efficiency.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Efficiency

People with lower creative ability tend to avoid risky situations & decisions, preferring the status quo, while people with higher creative skills tend not to flinch from challenging situations. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Risk

Creativity anxiety – a distinct form of anxiety that emerges at the prospect of having to be creative –having to think creatively on demand lowers creative achievement & hinders people’s ability to think creatively.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Anxiety

Your self-talk affects your creative process. Negative self-talk decreases creativity via lower confidence due to self-criticalness; increased positive, self-reinforcing self-talk decreases negativity & increases confidence/creativity.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Confidence

How do companies increase creativity? When individuals & teams are provided leadership for creativity & a supportive working environment where creativity is valued, innovative motivation & performance are enhanced & increase.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Leadership

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.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Knowing

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.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #ProblemSolving

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. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Process

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. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Imagination

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.
#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Knowing

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.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Inspiration

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

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Subjective