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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...


Realizing Creativity
At the just-completed Marconi Institute for Creativity conference in Bologna, Italy, creativity scholars presented new research examining...


The Hardest Thing About Creativity
At the recent annual convention of the American Psychological Association, researchers examined how people make creativity happen....


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 ...


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...


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


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


Build Your Creative Muscle
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...


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


The How of Creativity
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 ...


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


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


To Be Creative, Be Smart with Emotions
Creativity is full of emotions. Events, interactions, or even our own thoughts can trigger emotions. But emotions are not just...
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