What are the effects of expected reward on creative problem solving? Can we enhance creative problem solving using using subliminal reward (Pessiglione's paradigm)? our new study is out!!! link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Please read this summary. There is no valid method to boost intelligence. Educators should pay special attention.

Need creativity scales and tasks for research use? See this OSF Archive "Creativity Tasks and Scales: Free for Public Use." It has many of the most popular surveys and tasks in DOC, PDF, and MediaLab QUE formats. (Please RT.) Center for Open Science #OpenScience osf.io/4s9p6/

Imaginary play, imaginary companions, and personified objects (e.g. anthropomorphized teddy bears) are universal and cross cultural, but their rates, how children interact with them, and how parents discuss, vary by culture. psyarxiv.com/6kcbj/

Check out this great analysis of the creative process using eye tracking and spontaneous comments during a creative drawing task! Maciej Karwowski frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Music Similarity Network prokulski.science/temp/music_gra… Łukasz Prokulski based on data from AllMusic.com The most 'connecting different genres' artists: U2, Radiohead, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Neil Young, Sting, Depeche Mode, Alice Cooper, John Hiatt, Tom Petty.

A #diversity and creativity #experiment concluded... “a mix of well-trained workers and those with little to no experience was optimal for driving work forward while also maintaining creativity” bit.ly/2Bgq7Mo

We’ve all heard the talk about left-brain versus right-brain. But do we know where in the brain does creativity come from? #NSFfunded scientists at Drexel University explain ⬇️

The Role of Mindfulness in Viewing and Making Art in Children and Adults is now in print! Big thanks to MASS MoCA Kidspace @ MASS MoCA Mind & Life link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

Does music training improve cognitive skills and academic achievement (math & literacy)? “Once the quality of study design is controlled for, the overall effect of music training programs is null (g¯¯ ≈ 0) and highly consistent across studies (τ2 ≈ 0).” bit.ly/3iDUm3l

Need scales & tasks for research on creativity, art, humor, or aesthetics? Our OSF archive of open tools has been updated with new humor, art, & creativity tasks (in DOC, PDF, Qualtrics, & MediaLab QUE formats.) (Please RT.) Center for Open Science osf.io/4s9p6/

Happy to share our (with Maciej Karwowski) new paper exploring personality of Nobel Prize laureates doi.org/10.1037/aca000…

🎉New paper out on gender differences in top-performing math students’ achievement, achievement profiles, and achievement motivation in the Journal of Educational Psychology with Franzis Preckel, Jacque Eccles, and Martin Brunner! doi.org/10.1037/edu000…. A thread 👇 (1/7)

1/ Can A.I. do our literature reviews for us? Stop everything and try elicit.org, an amazing new tool that uses large language models to answer research questions via empirical research- in the video below I ask it "Does social media negatively impact mental health?"

Sarcasm spurs #creativity scientificamerican.com/article/sarcas…

Is creativity without intelligence possible? A Necessary Condition Analysis N=12k sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Facial Width-to-Height Ratio among Nominees and Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature x.com/izalebuda/stat…

Slumps and Jumps: Another Look at Developmental Changes in Creative Abilities #creativity degruyter.com/view/j/ctra.20…

Greater male variability in creativity: A latent variables approach #creativity Iza psmag.com/the-most-creat…

I wrote an article - Learn how to make your kid more creative! theconversation.com/five-ways-to-m…