creativity
Do you have someone in your life who is constantly reading you their latest poem, showing off their latest thirty seconds of strumming, or showing you their latest black and white out of focus picture? If so, congratulations, your life sucks, and the findings of this study won’t surprise you: … Read More
Problem It’s taken two hours, but you’ve finally come up with a creative solution to your problem. It’s probably the best you can do and pushing yourself for something better probably won’t do any good, right? Reality Wrong. According to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and … Read More
Problem Your team needs to make an idea better before you can implement it. Reality If someone stakes a claim to that idea, no one else will really be interested in improving it, according to a study in The Journal of Applied Psychology. Method Researchers had 230 students at a … Read More
You can go for a walk, dim the lights, have a glass of Scotch—all proven ways to boost your levels of creativity. But here’s something you can do without even getting up out of your chair: develop a sense of entitlement. A study published in the Journal of Experimental Social … Read More
Need to generate ideas? Take a stroll. A study (pdf warning) published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition has found that walking can double your creativity. Researchers had 176 subjects complete a series of experiments involving walking on a treadmill, walking outdoors, sitting inside, sitting outdoors, … Read More
