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We are more likely to have courage to share original ideas when we receive implicit and explicit messages of support at school and work....

A new paper in the journal Creativity and Innovation Management, authored by my colleagues and me, suggests that men receive greater ...

A new paper from my lab in the Journal of Research in Personality examined how people answer creative thinking tasks. We found that...

A new paper from my lab in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts examines the perennial question of...

Newton formulated his theory of gravity and Shakespeare wrote King Lear while quarantined during the plague. But would they have been...

Negative reviews. A hoped-for invitation. Getting stuck on a project. Something happens, and an emotional reaction is triggered....

A new paper in the Journal of Creative Behavior shows the power of emotional intelligence to make creativity happen. My colleagues and I...

Was your New Year’s resolution to be more creative? We enter the New Year with enthusiasm and resolve, but whether it is an attempt at...

Emotions move us. This metaphor is usually applied to refer to our emotional experience (e.g., being moved by a song or a theater ...

A New Yorker cartoon shows a scene at a cocktail party with a caption: “Did you know that it was Harry who came up with the idea for ...

Scholars studying the role of emotions in creativity and innovation gathered last week at the Centro Botin in Santander, Spain to send a...

Creativity is full of emotion, from the anxiety of the blank computer screen and the frustration of facing inevitable obstacles to the...

Did you ever wish your students or children would be more persistent in their school work? Maybe the following example rings familiar as...

Creativity is full of emotions. Events, interactions, or even our own thoughts can trigger emotions. But emotions are not just...

The European Collaborative Creativity Conference brought together a group of international scholars to put together a puzzle of...