Prior research has shown that free walking can enhance creative thinking. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether bidirectional body-mind links are essential for the positive effect of free walking on creative thinking. Moreover, it is unknown whether the positive effect can be generalized to older adults. In Experiment 1, we replicated previous findings with two additional groups of young par...

This study examined the relations of creative thinking with Big Five factors of personality and the differences by sex and age on creativity. A sample of Italian schoolchildren (56 boys, 56 girls), between 8 to 10 years of age, completed the Test of Creative Thinking and the Big Five Questionnaire for Children. Analysis of results indicated that older children obtained significantly higher scor...

An innovative critique of existing studies on creativity has revealed the opportunity of distinguishing among different varieties of creative tasks, and namely creativity for “Continuity”, “Opposition” and “Detachment”, considering relations between products and perceived models. This theoretical contribution has led to a specific evaluation procedure: the COD Creativity test. Considering the i...

Given the fragility of today’s intelligent systems, we consider the necessity of creativity in systems designed for artificial general intelligence. We examine an archetypical creativity “algorithm” suggested by Czikzentmihalyi in the context of computational systems, and, in particular consider the computability of such an algorithm. We argue that it is likely not computable, in the Turing sen...

purpose: this article aims to assess the impact of the work environment of the iranian national library and archive (nli) on creativity of its staff based on their opinion. method: keys standard questionnaire was distributed among all staff who had an academic degree. 183 completed questionnaires were collected and analyzed using spss. findings: results showed that the work environment of nli i...

The European Council agreed in declaring 2009 the year of creativity and innovation.The Communication of March 2008 (European Commission, 2008a, 2) puts it simply:“Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation for both social andeconomic reasons”. This paper aims at constructing a preliminary understanding ofresearch on creativity and the possibilities of ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Creative metacognition (CMC) refers to a combination of self-and contextual-knowledge used to make decisions about one's own creative efforts and accomplishments. Competent creators use CMC to judge whether their contributions might be considered creative. Do novice creators have the ability estimate their own level of creativity? The purpose of this study was to examine t...