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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
Realizing Creativity
At the just-completed Marconi Institute for Creativity conference in Bologna, Italy, creativity scholars presented new research examining...
Mar 16, 2023
The Hardest Thing About Creativity
At the recent annual convention of the American Psychological Association, researchers examined how people make creativity happen....
Mar 16, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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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