Positive emotions enhance problem & involvement recognition, while negative emotions heighten constraint recognition. These cognitive shifts, in turn, shape situational motivation & problem-solving.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Emotions

A creative genius is typically characterized by a complex & often contradictory personality, a capacity to integrate knowledge from disparate domains, and the creation of at least one groundbreaking work within an established field 
#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Genius

Children’s engagement in a safe and inclusive environment where they can explore, express & validate their emotions through creative journaling (with color) improves emotional awareness, effective coping strategies, & enhanced communication skills.
#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Emotions

Athlete branding is dominate by Western, male & elite athlete contexts with limited attention to digital-native, cross-cultural & female athlete branding.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Branding

In faculty, joy is something that arises not through seeking it directly but through doing meaningful work together. Collaborative creativity interrupts burnout by turning faculty toward one another & the in-between spaces where curiosity & creativity take hold.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Collaboration

The effects of AI in higher education are determined by how its capabilities are mediated within educational contexts, especially involving students, educators, institutions & policymakers, with clear policies, ethics & attention to equity.
#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #AI

Constructivist teaching, particularly problem-based learning, shows consistent effectiveness across creative thinking dimensions, including fluency, flexibility & originality (across subject areas).

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Constructivism

Individuals experiencing benign (vs. malicious) envy evaluate ideas generated by an envied target as more creative & subsequently exhibit greater willingness to invest in those ideas

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Envy

Brainstorming rules shape how ideas are linked within groups. More elaborated ideas are generated when the rules are presented simultaneously (not sequentially) particularly under conditions of anonymity.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Groups

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

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374526000105

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #IPV

Mathematical literacy is a key twenty-first-century competence that relies on creative thinking to interpret contexts, select flexible strategies, & generate original solutions.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Math

Gen-AI can participate meaningfully in creative processes as a human-made, non-living tool, but lacks the experiential grounding that characterizes authentic human creativity. Authenticity is the key point of divergence.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #AI

Workplace playfulness includes intrapersonal playfulness- employees include playful elements in work tasks; interpersonal playfulness-collaboration & shared experiences; & organizational playfulness-incorporates play into work processes.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Play

Psychological safety is important in enabling learning & innovation, enhancing collaboration, continuous improvement, fostering resilience to change, strengthening relationships, improving well-being & improving leadership effectiveness. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Safety

While AI is associated with expanded productivity, rapid iteration & enlarged possibility spaces, it also relates to tensions around authorship, originality, recognition, labour, bias, access, legitimacy & sustainability. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #AI

Meaning-making after sexual abuse is existential, cognitive, emotional, social & bodily. Promoting peer/community support, cultural connectedness & social change helps prevent SA & reduces long-term impacts.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #SA

Awe is a transformative emotion that influences identity, cognition & behavior, with implications for core organizational processes such as leadership, work design, organizational change, sensemaking & innovation.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Awe

Critical thinking, creative thinking & problem-solving support each other and form the foundation of higher-order thinking skills, emphasizing the need to incorporate these competencies into instructional design to prepare learners for complex real-world challenges.
#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Competencies

Rest is not a cognitive vacuum, but intervals where memory, semantic unity & autobiographical reflection can consolidate. Educational rigor should re-defined & learning designed around sustainable mental, emotional & physiological rhythms.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Rest

Higher education institutions need to promote critical AI literacy & pedagogical frameworks capable of preserving epistemic agency, reflective reasoning & cognitive autonomy in increasingly AI-mediated learning environments.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #AI

There is no single best innovation approach. Leaders need to be agile, read the situation, create safe conditions for learning & decide when to experiment & when to standardize. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Agile

Digital environments encourage emotional expressiveness, experimentation & inclusivity; however may promote emotional standardization, dependency & affective vulnerability, particularly during a sensitive developmental stage (eg adolescence).

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Emotion

Four categories of initiatives foster teachers' creativity: music-based interdisciplinary, science-integrated, strategy-oriented & technology-enhanced initiatives with music-based interdisciplinary initiatives being the most common & effective.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Music

Cognitive, affective, relational & agentic micro-practices can act as a vehicle for micro-transformation for students through daily actions that accumulate & reshape the academic ecosystem over time.
#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Transformation

Empathy fosters psychological safety, encourages open idea exchange & enhances both individual & team creativity.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Empathy

Future thinking skills (ie preventive skills (eg planning), creative skills (eg scenario planning) & adaptive skills (eg positive thinking), have a positive relationship with better academic performance, motivation, self-regulation & decision making.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Future

Green social capital (shared norms/networks to achieve sustainability goals) significantly enhances green improvisation (generation of eco solutions) & compositional creativity (design of eco solutions), which positively influences green innovation.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Eco

Nomophobia, the anxiety of being without a smartphone/connectivity, is associated with diminished attentional control & poorer creative performance, consistent with disruption of divergent thinking & creative incubation.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Nomophobia

Researchers may achieve scientific recognition yet feel emotionally depleted. Work/life balance is a  key mediator with prosocial motivation & creativity showing protective effects and mitigating pressures.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Balance

Some leisure activities, such as arts & cultural engagement are related to healthy epigenetic aging, with magnitudes comparable to physical activity.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Aging

Stimulating public interest in scientific content is challenging in science communication Understandability, unexpected information & specificity are key for scientific illustrations engagement with asymmetry leading to illustrations being perceived as interesting.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Asymmetry

Transformational leadership (motivating teams to exceed expectation via personal growth & shared vision) positively and significantly influence radical creativity challenging existing paradigms), through creative process engagement.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Leadership

I’ve posted an interesting new article in Psychology Today: Do Animals Experience Flow.
Take a look - hope you enjoy it.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Flow

Children's experiences in early childhood education & care, particularly character education through art & resilience projects via teamwork & mindfulness, is integral to flourishing & psychological resources.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Flourishing

Work rituals urge employees to share emotional energy, & then, employees are likely to experience a higher level of work meaningfulness. In turn, employees tend to engage in more proactive behavior.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Rituals

While challenges & destabilizing activities can stimulate creativity by preventing routine responses, comfort/safety, social support/connection & positive emotional experiences/group synergies increase creative self-efficacy & emotional creativity.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Nurturing

Low (vs. high) color saturation (the intensity of pigment in color) and muted color increases a luxury brand’s perceived brand status, with perceived continuity heritage mediating this effect. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Saturation

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. 

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Eco

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.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Abuse

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.

#Science #Art #RelationalSpace #Collective