UPCOMING— e26: Altered States: The Science of Psychedelics & Creativity
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)
e25: SPECIAL EVENT: Art in the Age of AI
An Artist and Scientist’s Perspective on Art in the age of AI with Maria Than & Theresa Demmer
e24: Lost in Stories: The Neuroscience of Immersion
READING: Why people keep watching: neurophysiologic immersion during video consumption increases viewing time and influences behavior. (Lin et al., 2022)
e23: From Artistic Creation to Aesthetic Reception
READING: From artistic creation to aesthetic reception: The mirror model of art. (Tinio, 2013)
e22: Awe’s Role in Enhancing Creativity
READING: Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity. (Zhang et al., 2024)
e21: Science of Architecture: Aesthetics & Human Experience
READING: The neuroaesthetics of architectural spaces (Chatterjee, Coburn & Weinberger, 2021)
e20: Creativity Research in Focus: Looking Back & Moving Forward
World Creativity and Innovation Day Celebration.
e19: Teachers’ Value of Student Creativity
READING: The perception of creativity and creative abilities among general education and special education teachers. (Kasirer & Shnitzer-Meirovich, 2021)
e18: So much time & nothing to do... Creative Minds at Rest
READING: Creative Minds at Rest: Creative Individuals are More Associative and Engaged with Their Idle Thoughts. (Raffaelli et al., 2023)
e17: Does taking the perspectives of others influence creative thinking?
READING: The Necessity of Others is the Mother of Invention: Intrinsic and Prosocial Motivations, Perspective Taking, and Creativity. (Grant & Berry, 2011)
e15: Audiovisual Immersive Experiences
READING: Defining Immersion: Literature Review and Implications for Research on Immersive Audiovisual Experiences. (Agrawal et al., 2019)
e14: Is Inspiration Contagious?
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)
e13: Can AI really be creative?
READING: AI can only produce artificial creativity (Runco, 2023)
e12— How Digital Interactions Shape Creativity
READING: Virtual Communication Curbs Creative Idea Generation (Brucks & Levav, 2022)
e11: The Next Generation of Creativity Research
World Creativity and Innovation Day Celebration.
e10: Applied Creative Research: Social Prescribing
READING: A Two-Year Evaluation of the Young People Social Prescribing (YPSP) Pilot. (Bertotti et al., 2021)
e09: Virtual Reality, Immersion, & Empathy
READING: Exploring virtual reality for quality immersive empathy building experiences. (Young et al., 2021)
e08: Art-Making through Neurodegeneration
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)
e07: Openness vs Intellect Paradox
READING: From madness to genius: The Openness/Intellect trait domain as a paradoxical simplex (DeYoung et al., 2012)