Curious Minds Reading Club
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Curious Minds Reading Club ~
If you’re as curious about the inner workings of our creative minds as we are, join our reading club!
We’re thrilled to have you.
Each month we focus on a new creativity, arts, or aesthetics topic and gather on Zoom to discuss, debate, and explore the ideas the selected paper inspired in an open and welcoming space.
Our readings skew academic; however, we encourage people from creative backgrounds who are curious, looking to explore practices and experiences from a more scientific perspective, and would like to share your expertise!
Curious Minds Meetings:
READING: Who are you after psychedelics? A systematic review and a meta-analysis of the magnitude of long-term effects of serotonergic psychedelics on cognition/creativity, emotional processing and personality. (Solaya et al., 2024)
An Artist and Scientist’s Perspective on Art in the age of AI with Maria Than & Theresa Demmer
READING: Why people keep watching: neurophysiologic immersion during video consumption increases viewing time and influences behavior. (Lin et al., 2022)
READING: From artistic creation to aesthetic reception: The mirror model of art. (Tinio, 2013)
READING: Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity. (Zhang et al., 2024)
READING: The neuroaesthetics of architectural spaces (Chatterjee, Coburn & Weinberger, 2021)
World Creativity and Innovation Day Celebration.
READING: The perception of creativity and creative abilities among general education and special education teachers. (Kasirer & Shnitzer-Meirovich, 2021)
READING: Creative Minds at Rest: Creative Individuals are More Associative and Engaged with Their Idle Thoughts. (Raffaelli et al., 2023)
READING: The Necessity of Others is the Mother of Invention: Intrinsic and Prosocial Motivations, Perspective Taking, and Creativity. (Grant & Berry, 2011)
End-of-year Holiday Social 2023!
READING: Defining Immersion: Literature Review and Implications for Research on Immersive Audiovisual Experiences. (Agrawal et al., 2019)
READING: Writer–Reader Contagion of Inspiration and Related States (Thrash et al., 2017) & Inspired by Art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task. (Welke et al., 2023)
READING: AI can only produce artificial creativity (Runco, 2023)
READING: Virtual Communication Curbs Creative Idea Generation (Brucks & Levav, 2022)
World Creativity and Innovation Day Celebration.
READING: A Two-Year Evaluation of the Young People Social Prescribing (YPSP) Pilot. (Bertotti et al., 2021)
READING: Exploring virtual reality for quality immersive empathy building experiences. (Young et al., 2021)
READING: Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain? A review and empirical assessment of clinical case reports and published artworks for systematic evidence of quality and style changes linked to damage or neurodegenerative disease. (Pelowski et al., 2022)
READING: From madness to genius: The Openness/Intellect trait domain as a paradoxical simplex (DeYoung et al., 2012)
READING: Enhancing team creativity with playful improvisation theater: A controlled intervention field study (West et al., 2017)
READING: Inspiration in the Creative Process (Cui et al., 2020)
READING: The Creative Life: A Daily Diary Study of Creativity, Affect, & Well-Being in Creative Individuals (Smith et al., 2022)
READING: A new method for training creativity: narrative as an alternative to divergent thinking (Fletcher & Benveniste, 2022)
READING: Flexible or leaky attention in creative people? Distinct patterns of attention for different types of creative thinking (Zabelina et al., 2016)
READING: Art museums as Institutions for Human Flourishing. (Cotter & Pawelski, 2021)