Your Brain on Art
Most people share the intuition that the creation and appreciation of art are important aspects of being human. Art moves us...
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- Mar 16
Strategies to Overcome Creative Anxiety
There are many reasons to boost our creativity, from enhancing our well-being to building career skills. Yet, creativity is, by...
- Mar 16
Overcoming Creativity Anxiety
The New Year is an occasion many of us look forward to setting new goals and aspirations. Disconnecting from our digital devices before...
- Mar 16
Creative Leadership Lessons from Star Trek
In honor of International Women’s Day, and knowing the power of fiction to inspire, let’s consider what we can learn about leadership...
- Mar 16
Art Builds Understanding
At the just completed Designing for Empathy Summit, social scientists and museum leaders gathered to discuss how museums can build...
- Mar 16
Gender-Diverse Teams Are More Creative
The nature of creative work has changed in recent decades, becoming increasingly team-based. It is thus important to know which teams ...
- Mar 16
Realizing Creativity
At the just-completed Marconi Institute for Creativity conference in Bologna, Italy, creativity scholars presented new research examining...
- Mar 16
The Hardest Thing About Creativity
At the recent annual convention of the American Psychological Association, researchers examined how people make creativity happen....
- Mar 16
Making Creativity and Innovation Happen
In a World Economic Forum article outlining the "top 10 job skills of tomorrow," at least five are related to creativity and...
- Mar 16
Creativity and Serendipity: Making the Unexpected Happen
It is a well-known story. Viagra was supposed to be a drug reducing high blood pressure. It did not turn out to be effective for this ...
- Mar 16
What It Takes to Be Creative in a Time of Crisis
During a crisis – whether personal, organizational, or societal – usual ways of thinking and action may no longer be helpful or serve ...
- Mar 15
When Is Your Creativity Greatest?
New research published in the Academy of Management Journal shows that there isn’t one best time of day for creativity. Rather, peak ...
- Mar 15
Resolution: Build Creativity and Well-Being
What goals found their way into your New Year’s resolutions? Among the common goals of losing weight and exercising more, might you...
- Mar 15
Creativity Requires Taking Risks
A new study from an international team of researchers published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts shows that...
- Mar 15
Who Are the Most Effective Creativity Role Models?
A new study published in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts shows how different kinds of mindsets about creativity ...
- Mar 15
Where Creative Potential Comes From
Scientists studying creativity from around the world gathered last week at a virtual conference organized by the Marconi Institute for ...
- Mar 15
Why Creativity Takes Courage
We are more likely to have courage to share original ideas when we receive implicit and explicit messages of support at school and work....
- Mar 15
Bias in Support for Creativity: Another Glass Ceiling
A new paper in the journal Creativity and Innovation Management, authored by my colleagues and me, suggests that men receive greater ...
- Mar 15
Creativity Can Be Taught
A new paper from my lab in the Journal of Research in Personality examined how people answer creative thinking tasks. We found that...
- Mar 15
The Apparent Paradox of Creativity
A new paper from my lab in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts examines the perennial question of...
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