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Openness to experience predicts dopamine effects on divergent thinking
Personality Neuroscience, 2019 Individual differences in trait levels of openness to experience and creativity have been theoretically linked to dopamine function. However, empirical evidence for this assumption is scarce, especially for causal connections.
Wiebke Käckenmester +2 more
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The relation between gray matter morphology and divergent thinking in adolescents and young adults. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Adolescence and early adulthood are developmental time periods during which creative cognition is highly important for adapting to environmental changes.
Janna Cousijn +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Currently due to the COVID-19 pandemic, young people are experiencing a decrease in self-efficacy and an increase in mental illness. Though previous studies have shown that self-efficacy and divergent thinking training are positively related, little is ...
Bin Zuo +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 What factors predict the originality of domain-specific idea generation? Replicating and extending an earlier study using a Design Product Ideation task in an introductory university design course, the present research, grounded in the componential ...
Abbey K. Erwin +2 more
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The role of divergent thinking in interpersonal trust during the COVID-19 pandemic: creative aspects
Creativity Studies, 2023 Interpersonal trust relies on positive expectations about other people. Social psychology distinguishes ingroup (individuals share social identity, e.g., family) from outgroup trust (individuals do not share social identity, e.g., strangers).
Massimiliano Palmiero +8 more
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Metacontrol of human creativity: The neurocognitive mechanisms of convergent and divergent thinking
NeuroImage, 2020 Creativity is a complex construct that would benefit from a more comprehensive mechanistic approach. Two processes have been defined to be central to creative cognition: divergent and convergent thinking.
Weitao Zhang +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 : Although previous research provides converging evidence for the role of posterior regions of the brain (including temporal, occipital, and parietal regions) involved in inhibition on creative thinking, it remains unclear as to how these regions ...
Lijie Zhang +15 more
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The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted
Tsutomu Harada
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GENDER-BASED DIFFERENCES IN SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN’S DIVERGENT THINKING [PDF]
, 2014 This study examines whether the shortage of females in science and engineering is linked to possible gender-based differences in school-aged children’s divergent thinking.
C. Roue, Leah
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The Role of Non-Representational Hand Gestures in Creative Thinking
LanguagesPrevious studies suggest that representational gestures support divergent thinking and that mental imagery is necessary for gestures to aid convergent thinking. However, less is known about non-representational gesture use (i.e., beat and palm-revealing)
Gyulten Hyusein, Tilbe Göksun
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