The study explored the relationship of creativity and locus of control of students coming from various academic disciplines (Biotechnology, Environmental Sciences, Civil Engineering, Electronics & Communication, Centre for Women Studies, Mathematics, Food and Nutrition and Geography).The data was collected from a sample of 450 students of Mysore University out of which 40 belonged to Electronic...

Background. Th e development of creative thinking in childhood is great importance as a resource for further self-realization the individual. study mechanisms formation one permanently developing areas psychology. In modern conditions around world, indicator creativity skill 21st century acts an quality educational environment, which confi rms high degree social demand psychology thinking. Obje...

OBJECTIVE Associations between eminent creativity and bipolar disorders have been reported, but there are few data relating non-eminent creativity to bipolar disorders in clinical samples. We assessed non-eminent creativity in euthymic bipolar (BP) and unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) patients, creative discipline controls (CC), and healthy controls (HC). METHODS 49 BP, 25 MDD, 32 CC,...

Background Creativity is a multidimensional phenomenon and an important component of human capacities. This ability is characterized by the involvement of several cognitive functions particularly linked to the prefrontal cortex. We compared divergent thinking, a measure of creativity, in patients affected by progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), other parkinsonian syndromes, and healthy control...

The aim of the present study was to analyse and compare components of creativity of students with respect to their locus of control, age, gender and family type. The study was conducted on students of undergraduate and post graduate programmes of university of Mysore. The data was collected from a sample of 244 students, of which 112 were males and 132 were females. It was also found that 146 s...

Abstract This article presents the results of a large-scale interdisciplinary project aimed at corroboration role creativity in way university undergraduates ( N = 309) coin new complex words. Specifically, tendency towards economy expression, preferred by speaker, and semantic transparency, listener, were examined broader context creative potential an individual, understood as divergent thinki...

Creativity can be defined the capacity of an individual to produce something original and useful. An important measurable component of creativity is divergent thinking. Despite existing studies on creativity-related cerebral structural basis, no study has used a large sample to investigate the relationship between individual verbal creativity and regional gray matter volumes (GMVs) and white ma...

Creativity is important for social survival and individual wellbeing; science, art, philosophy and technology have been enriched and expanded by this trait. To our knowledge this is the first study probing differences in brain cerebral blood flow (CBF) between highly creative individuals (scientists and/or artists socially recognized for their contributions to their fields with creativity index...