Creativity Affects How People Relate to themselves, Others, and The World
Creativity changes the individual and contributes to their well-being.
For instance, creativity in how people deal with challenging emotional situations can make them more successful in addressing these challenges.1 An adolescent who responds to a school dance being canceled by organizing a protest or organizing a dance in a park is more likely to .
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Creativity Is Relational
Creativity does not happen in a social vacuum.
We found that emotional intelligence is not related to standard tests of creative thinking.
In other words, being able to accurately perceive emotions, understand causes and consequences of emotions, and manage emotions does not predict creativity of ideas on tasks asking for different uses for a brick.
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Is creativity just thinking?
An international scholar panel show creativity is action, not just thinking.
The European Collaborative Creativity Conference brought together a group of international scholars to put together a puzzle of creativity, building from neuroscience to cultural influences.
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We Cannot Talk About Creativity as A General Unified “Thing”
Creativity is not unitary.
Rather, we can learn about specific aspects of creativity.
As researchers developed a model describing the role of emotions in creativity,3 we describe what can be learned from different aspects of creativity.
What creative work people choose is predicted by their emotional traits, including their interests and passions. .
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We Need to Learn from Both Qualitative and Quantitative Studies
A recent study at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence shows different lessons from quantitative vs. qualitative methods.
We surveyed artists—painters, sculptors, photographers, creative writers, musicians, and choreographers—and asked them about their emotions in the creative process.
As in many previous studies, artists rated positive emoti.
