Gesture Facilitates Children’s Creative Thinking

Running head: GESTURE AND CREATIVE THINKING This is a pre-publication copy of a manuscript accepted for publication in Psychological Science. Title: Gesture Facilitates Children’s Creative Thinking. Authors: Elizabeth Kirk

Counterfactual Thinking Facilitates Behavioral Intentions.

People often ponder what might have been, and these counterfactual inferences have been linked to behavior regulation. Counterfactuals may enhance performance by either a content-specific pathway (via shift in behavioral intentions) and/or a content-neutral pathway (via mindsets or motivation). Three experiments provided new specification of the content-specific pathway. A sequential priming pa...

The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

ness of titles. The total Titles scores for Years 1984, 1990, 1998, and 2008 increased up to fifth grade, remained static in sixth grade, t(36,664)1⁄4 3.40, p1⁄4 .043, seventh and eighth grades, t(44,612)1⁄4 2.02, p1⁄4 .001, and high school, t(29,475)1⁄4 1.12, p1⁄4 .001, as Figure 1 shows. Titles scores significantly increased in adults, t(15,602)1⁄4 14.84, p< .001. FIGURE 1 Total Fluency, Orig...

Fertile green: green facilitates creative performance.

The present research sought to extend the nascent literature on color and psychological functioning by examining whether perception of the color green facilitates creativity. In four experiments, we demonstrated that a brief glimpse of green prior to a creativity task enhances creative performance. This green effect was observed using both achromatic (white, gray) and chromatic (red, blue) cont...

Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving.

Four experiments indicated that positive affect, induced by means of seeing a few minutes of a comedy film or by means of receiving a small bag of candy, improved performance on two tasks that are generally regarded as requiring creative ingenuity: Duncker's (1945) candle task and M. T. Mednick, S. A. Mednick, and E. V. Mednick's (1964) Remote Associates Test. One condition in which negative af...