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 ...

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 ...

We don’t need science to know that creativity is sexy. Mick Jagger’s number proves that point. As do anecdotes from everyone’s lives about far lesser musicians than the Rolling Stones. In one recent ...

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 ...

Imagine trying to draw your face with your non-dominant hand. How would it come out? Probably pretty terribly, right? You can’t expect symmetrical eyes or a recognizable nose when you’re going against ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...