An exploration both artistic and scientific, Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine: How Creativity Works tells us why a walk can lead to a big idea and how brainstorming dulls imagination. FC: How does creativity ...

Creative people think “outside the box,” a gift of psychological flexibility that, it turns out, may also apply to their ethics, according to the latest research from the American Psychological ...

It drives me crazy. Whenever I mention my research on creativity, people invariably tell me how they wish they could be creative. When I ask them why they think they can’t be, they explain how they ...

It drives me crazy. Whenever I mention my research on creativity, people invariably tell me how they wish they could be creative. When I ask them why they think they can’t be, they explain how they ...

No matter what the medium, artists of all kinds rely on their innate creativity to produce their content and set themselves apart from the pack. But even the most tenured professionals have moments in ...

There’s no doubt generative AI’s ability to rapidly produce new texts, images and audio is shaking up creative jobs. In her book The Creative Mind, cognitive science expert Margaret Boden ...

There are two main types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation comes from within the task itself, and directly by the value of the benefit from completing it. Extrinsic ...