Afleveringen
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"Exploring the Link Between Mind Wandering, Mindfulness, and Creativity: A Multidimensional Approach" by Sergio Agnoli, Manila Vanucci, Claudia Pelagatti & Giovanni Emanuele Corazza
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This academic paper, published in the Creativity Research Journal in 2018, explores the relationship between mind wandering, mindfulness, and creativity. It investigates how different aspects of these mental states, traditionally seen as opposed, can jointly or separately influence creative thinking. The research differentiates between deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering, as well as the various dimensions of mindfulness, to understand their impact on both the generation of original ideas (originality) and broader creative achievements.
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"What Are the Benefits of Mind Wandering to Creativity?" by Samuel Murray, Nathan Liang, Nicholaus Brosowsky, and Paul Seli
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This journal article from Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts investigates the widely discussed idea that mind wandering during a creative incubation period enhances divergent thinking, a form of creativity involving generating multiple solutions. Through two studies attempting to replicate previous findings, the authors found no evidence to support this claim. They suggest that defining mind wandering solely as task-unrelated thought is inadequate for assessing its link to creativity and propose future research should focus on how constrained vs. unconstrained thinking relates to different types of creative outcomes over varying timescales.
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"Concentrative Meditation Influences Creativity by Increasing Cognitive Flexibility" by Barbara C. N. Müller, Anastasija Gerasimova, and Simone M. Ritter
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This paper explores how meditation influences creativity, specifically investigating whether different styles, mindfulness (MM) and concentrative (CM), have distinct effects. Through an experiment involving experienced practitioners, the researchers measured creativity and cognitive flexibility before and after a meditation session. The findings indicate that meditation, in general, enhances creative performance, but notably, only concentrative meditation was found to increase cognitive flexibility, suggesting this mechanism might be key to CM's impact on creativity.
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"The Science of Mind Wandering: Empirically Navigating the Stream of Consciousness" by Jonathan Smallwood and Jonathan W. Schooler
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This document explores the scientific study of mind wandering, defined as thoughts unrelated to the current task or environment. Researchers face challenges in studying this internal process due to the lack of direct experimental control and reliance on subjective reports, which can be addressed through techniques like triangulation using self-reports, behaviour, and neurocognitive measures like fMRI and EEG. The content of mind wandering varies, often focusing on the past and future and is linked to the default mode network in the brain, while research also examines the impact of meta-awareness – being aware of one's mind wandering – on performance and how techniques like mindfulness training can reduce its disruptive effects.
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"Symmetry and Balance as Factors of Aesthetic Appreciation: Ethel Puffer’s (1903) “Studies in Symmetry” Revised" by Ronald Hübner and Katja Thömmes
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This research revisits early experiments by Ethel Puffer (1903) on how symmetry and balance affect how pleasing a picture is considered. The authors repeated Puffer's study using modern methods and more participants to see if her findings were still valid. While Puffer found little support for mechanical balance being key to aesthetic appeal, this new study also found limited evidence for it. Instead, they observed that participants often prioritized closeness and lateral symmetry when arranging elements for aesthetic pleasure, even when it contradicted mechanical balance principles.
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"As Useful as a Bicycle to a Fish: Exploration versus Constraint in Creativity" by Lorna McKnight , Thomas C. Ormerod, Corina Sas
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This academic paper explores the relationship between exploration and constraint in creative design, particularly focusing on replicating and questioning the findings of Finke's Geneplore model. Through an experiment where participants created designs from shapes under different conditions (with or without a preinventive phase, and using mental or physical synthesis), the researchers found that a preinventive phase increased originality but decreased practicality, which challenges the idea that such a phase inherently boosts overall creativity and instead suggests it acts as a constraint. The study also raises concerns about the subjective nature of creativity assessment and the limitations of the mental synthesis task in reflecting real-world design processes.
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"The self-other knowledge asymmetry in cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, and creativity" by Aljoscha C. Neubauer, Anna Pribil, Alexandra Wallner, Gabriela Hofer
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This paper investigates how accurately young people and their peers perceive different types of abilities, applying the Self-Other Knowledge Asymmetry (SOKA) model. The SOKA model categorizes personality traits and abilities based on whether they are known to oneself, others, both, or neither. The study tested verbal, numerical, and spatial intelligence, along with creativity and emotional competencies, in two age groups, discovering that self- and peer perceptions of these abilities vary, potentially impacting significant decisions like career choices. The findings suggest that for some abilities, such as spatial and verbal intelligence, neither self nor peer estimates are particularly accurate, highlighting the potential value of objective assessments in vocational guidance.
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"Big Five Personality Traits as the Predictors of Creative Self-Efficacy and Creative Personal Identity: Does Gender Matter?" by Maciej Karwowski, Izabela Lebuda, Ewa Wisniewska, and Jacek Gralewski
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This academic article investigates the connection between the Big Five personality traits and two concepts related to a person's belief in their creative abilities: creative self-efficacy (CSE), which is confidence in one's creative problem-solving skills, and creative personal identity (CPI), which is the belief that being creative is central to one's self-concept. The study used a large sample of Polish individuals to determine how personality predicts these creative self-beliefs and if there are gender differences in these relationships. Findings indicated that certain personality traits are consistently linked to both CSE and CPI, though the specific predictors varied somewhat between men and women.
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"Uncertainty: A Necessary Condition for Creative Learning" by Ronald A. Beghetto
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This document explores how uncertainty is essential for creative learning. It argues that encountering disruptions or new stimuli prompts a need to think and act differently, initiating the creative process. The paper defines creative learning as developing new and meaningful understandings through both individual sense-making and social interaction. Critically, the author highlights that creative learning thrives in a state of "actionable uncertainty," where challenges are seen as opportunities for engagement and growth, rather than overwhelming obstacles. Educational practices, the author suggests, should embrace rather than avoid uncertainty to foster this kind of dynamic and personally significant learning.
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"What Types of Daydreaming Predict Creativity: Laboratory and Experience Sampling Evidence" by CM Zedelius, J Protzko, JM Broadway, JW Schooler
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This academic article investigates the intricate link between daydreaming and creativity. The researchers distinguish between various types of daydreaming and examine how individual differences in daydreaming styles, as well as fluctuations within individuals, relate to creative outcomes. Through laboratory tasks and real-world experience sampling, the study finds that personally meaningful daydreaming predicts self-reported creativity and daily inspiration, while fantastical daydreaming is associated with creative writing quality and day-to-day creative behaviour. These findings suggest that the specific content and style of daydreaming, not just its frequency, are key to understanding its role in creative thought and behaviour.
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"The Richness of Inner Experience: Relating Styles of Daydreaming to Creative Processes" by Claire M. Zedelius and Jonathan W. Schooler
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This academic paper explores the intricate link between daydreaming and creativity, arguing that a deeper understanding requires examining different creative processes and styles of daydreaming. It highlights the distinction between insight, which often feels sudden and resembles daydreaming, and analytic problem solving, a more deliberate and conscious approach. The authors propose that various aspects of daydreaming, such as mood, attentional focus, and intentionality, might influence which creative process is most facilitated, suggesting that not all daydreams impact creativity in the same way. Ultimately, the article aims to lay the groundwork for future research and potential interventions that could harness specific daydreaming styles to enhance creative potential.
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"Revisiting Mednick’s (1962) Theory of Creativity with a Composite Measure of Creativity: The Effect of Stimulus Type on Word Association Production" by Deana Vitrano, Jeanette Altarriba and Deniz Leblebici-Basar
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This paper revisits Mednick's theory of creativity, which posits that more creative individuals generate a greater number of word associations. The study investigated this by using controlled lists of abstract and concrete, high and low-frequency words to assess word association productivity in participants categorized as highly creative or less creative based on a composite measure including several different creativity tasks. While supporting Mednick's core idea that highly creative people produce more associations overall, the research also found that high-frequency words prompted more responses than low-frequency words, but, contrary to some previous work, there was no difference in responses between abstract and concrete words. Furthermore, the study found no significant link between creativity levels and intelligence or verbal fluency using their chosen measures.
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"The Associative Basis of The Creative Process" by Sarnoff A. Mednick
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This academic paper proposes an associative interpretation of creative thinking, suggesting it involves forming new combinations of associative elements. The author outlines three ways these combinations can occur: through serendipity (accidental contiguity), similarity of elements, or mediation via common links. The text argues that individual differences in creativity stem from how easily individuals can bring remote ideas into contiguity, with a "flat associative hierarchy" (access to less conventional associations) being linked to higher creativity. Finally, the paper describes the Remote Associates Test (RAT), designed to measure this associative ability, and presents preliminary research supporting its validity and relationship to various factors like academic performance and personality traits.
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"Revisiting Mednick’s Model on Creativity-Related Differences in Associative Hierarchies. Evidence for a Common Path to Uncommon Thought" by Benedek, Mathias, and Aljoscha C. Neubauer
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This paper revisits Mednick's long-standing theory about creativity and how our minds link ideas. Mednick suggested that creative people have "flatter associative hierarchies," meaning they find less obvious connections between concepts more easily than others. The study tested this idea using word association tasks and found that creative individuals don't actually have differently organised memory networks, but instead demonstrate higher associative fluency (generating more ideas) and more uncommon responses. This indicates that creativity might stem not from a unique memory structure, but from a more effective way of accessing and processing information stored there, possibly linked to adaptive executive functioning.
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"The current state of artificial intelligence generative language models is more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks" by Kent F. Hubert, Kim N. Awa & Darya L. Zabelina
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This academic paper explores the creative potential of artificial intelligence, specifically GPT-4, compared to humans by using established divergent thinking tasks like the Alternative Uses Task, Consequences Task, and Divergent Associations Task. The researchers controlled for fluency (the number of ideas generated) and found that AI significantly outperformed humans in terms of the originality and elaboration of its responses. While acknowledging that their study only measured one aspect of creativity, the authors suggest that AI demonstrates higher creative potential in this context, though the usefulness or appropriateness of AI-generated ideas still needs further investigation.
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"Network neuroscience of creative cognition: mapping cognitive mechanisms and individual differences in the creative brain" by Roger E Beaty, Paul Seli and Daniel L Schacter
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This paper reviews recent advancements in network neuroscience that illuminate the neural basis of creative thinking, examining both the underlying cognitive mechanisms and individual differences in creativity. It highlights that creativity involves the interplay of large-scale brain networks, particularly the Default Network (DN), associated with spontaneous thought, and the Executive Control Network (ECN), involved in cognitive control. The research indicates that interactions between these networks support key creative processes such as goal-directed memory retrieval, prepotent-response inhibition, and internally-focused attention. Furthermore, the study shows that functional connectivity patterns between these networks can predict an individual's creative ability, suggesting that the dynamic flexibility of these networks is crucial for creativity.
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"Elements of a Universal Aesthetic of Creativity" by David Cropley and Arthur Cropley
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This source explores the complex idea of a universal aesthetic of creativity, seeking to identify common criteria for judging creative output across diverse fields like art and engineering. It argues that while creativity is a subjective aesthetic judgment, not an objective measurement, focusing on socially useful products provides a promising path to developing widely agreeable indicators. Key properties of such creative products include effectiveness, novelty, elegance, and genesis (the ability to be applied in other contexts), suggesting that creativity exists at different levels and kinds, rather than being a simple yes or no quality. The text also discusses how these indicators can be recognised with a substantial level of agreement by observers, potentially aiding in assessment, communication about creative works, and guiding the teaching and learning of creativity.
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"The Structure of Intellect" by J. P. Guilford (1956)
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This psychological paper by J. P. Guilford explores the complex nature of human intellect, proposing that it is not a single, unified ability but rather composed of numerous interconnected factors. Guilford presents a system categorising these factors, which number around forty, into areas like cognition (discovery), production (including convergent and divergent thinking), and evaluation, further differentiating them by the content being processed (figural, structural, or conceptual). He argues that a single intelligence score is insufficient to capture the full range of intellectual capabilities and suggests that understanding these individual factors can lead to more comprehensive and meaningful assessments. The author also discusses the implications of this model for psychological theory, research, and intelligence testing practices, highlighting the potential for identifying previously unknown factors and improving our understanding of processes like problem-solving and creativity.
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"Intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control: The common and differential involvement of executive functions in intelligence and creativity" by Mathias Benedek, Emanuel Jauk, Markus Sommer, Martin Arendasy, Aljoscha C. Neubauer
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This research article explores the intricate relationships between intelligence, creativity, and cognitive control, specifically examining the role of executive functions. The authors investigated whether abilities like updating, shifting, and inhibition are commonly or differentially involved in both fluid intelligence and creativity (measured as divergent thinking). Their study, employing statistical modelling, aimed to determine if the known connection between intelligence and creativity could be partly explained by shared executive function involvement, revealing that updating is a key cognitive ability underlying both constructs.
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"Creativity—the unconscious foundations of the incubation period" by Simone M. Ritter and Ap Dijksterhuis
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This scientific article, titled "Creativity—the unconscious foundations of the incubation period," delves into the cognitive process of creativity, specifically examining the role of the incubation period – a break from conscious problem-solving. The authors, Simone M. Ritter and Ap Dijksterhuis, review existing research on incubation, mind-wandering, and sleep to explore whether unconscious processes actively contribute to creative breakthroughs, or if it's simply the cessation of conscious thought that aids in finding novel solutions. Ultimately, the paper argues in favour of the former, presenting evidence that unconscious processing plays a vital role in fostering creativity and suggesting practical applications for harnessing these effects.
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