This study, which has a correlational survey design, aims to investigate creativity among children in kindergartens, primary, middle and high schools. The population of this study is comprised of all children attending kindergartens, primary, middle and high schools in the 2011–2012 academic years. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 1200 students, 100 of whom were randomly selected...

In this article, some information about the data used in the article and a citation were not included. The details of the corrections are provided.] This study uses 3-level, 2-wave time-lagged data from a random sample of 55 high-technology firms, 238 teams, and 1,059 individuals in China to investigate a multilevel combinational model of employee creativity. First, we hypothesize that firm (ma...

The purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of women with household jobs agriculture toward innovation management in Masjed Soliman Township, Khouzestan Province, Iran. The population of this study included women with household jobs agriculture in Masjed Soliman Township. The total number of members was 100 people. Due to the low number of population, census methods were used to collec...

Basic education is intended to provide general education that is unique and decisive for further development of the life of every individual. In this general education must have its place even technical education, which has along with other natural science subjects to give students a basic quantum of technical knowledge and skills, develop technical thinking, creativity, helping to develop thei...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among creativity, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and creative home environment. For this study there were 127 young children subjects under age five from 10 kindergarten classes. Data gathered were analyzed for the verification of the hypothesis of this subject for using SPSS 18.0 program. The results of this study were as follows: F...

Musicians have been used extensively to study neural correlates of long-term practice, but no studies have investigated the specific effects of training musical creativity. Here, we used human functional MRI to measure brain activity during improvisation in a sample of 39 professional pianists with varying backgrounds in classical and jazz piano playing. We found total hours of improvisation ex...

Today’s concept of art is intimately linked with creativity. The type of political system affects creativity: an authoritarian system tends to yield more diversity in quality, but less diversity in the type of art produced. Centralized political systems tend to favour large ‘monuments’. By way of contrast, a federal system increases artists’ freedom by offering multiple sources of support. Gove...

We investigate the performance of non-expert judges in using leading computational poetry evaluation metrics to evaluate poetry written by humans. We find that regardless of the model used, non-expert judges are very poor at using metrics to evaluate creativity, even displaying the reverse of the desired rating pattern, preferring novice poetry to professional poetry. We discuss likely reasons ...

Creativity is the hallmark of human cognition and is behind every innovation, scientific discovery, piece of music, artwork, and idea that have shaped our lives, from ancient times till today. Yet scientific understanding of creative processes is quite limited, mostly due to the traditional belief that considers creativity as a mysterious puzzle, a paradox, defying empirical enquiry. Recently, ...