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Personality and Brain Structure Work Together to Grow Creativity
What does creative thought look like in the brain? With the willing brains of creative people and tools like fMRI that can look inside these brains in real-time, you’d think it would an easy question...
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How to Test Creativity With a Single Word
Image: Flickr/Glasseyes View cc license Get ready to think of a creative verb. Now, what action comes to mind when you look at the picture that heads this article? When you saw this chair, did you say...
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Study Shows We “Undervalue and Underutilize” Persistence in Creativity
It’s time to test your creativity: In 2 minutes, generate as many original ideas for things to eat or drink at a Thanksgiving dinner as you can. Now make a prediction: how many more creative ideas do...
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Persistence and Flexibility: A Dual Path to Creativity
Flickr/Gerwin Sturm cc license My kids are the north and south poles of creative problem-solving: Kestrel, my 7-year-old, will squeeze a problem until she wrings blood from it; Leif, my 9-year-old,...
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Census Bureau Paper: Immigration Boosts Wages
Image: flickr/Jon Rawlinson cc license As we have all seen recently, immigration threatens the dark part of the human brain that evolved to protect our ancestors from other groups. Though we no longer...
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Study Shows Creativity and Madness are the Same Genetic Disease
From van Gogh to Robin Williams to Charlie Chaplin to Lord Byron and more, our intuition pairs creativity with madness. Science agrees. Studies show that people with a touch of schizophrenia are more...
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