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Longer or shorter life?
It is not terribly uncommon to find contradictory conclusions when it come to creativity research. However, adding fame to the mix increases the variation in finding because fame is something the individual does not control. Granted there are some creative … Continue reading
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Tagged fame, longevity and creativity, performers, price of fame, writers
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Age and creativity
The very act of creativity means producing results that don’t resemble those produced by others. There is no easy way to arrive at a number for creativity. Instead a group of people, respected in the particular field, must view and … Continue reading
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Tagged age and creativity, D.K, D.K. Simonton, Emily Weinstein, H.C. Lehman, Katie Davis, Poets
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Is creativity on a downhill slide?
Just as the business world seems to be competing to attract creative workers, students’ scores on tests of creative thinking appear to be declining. Education professor at the College of William and Mary Kyung Hee Kim analyzed scores from the … Continue reading
Conforming to divergency
My first experience with creative problem solving competitions involved a group of rather ambitious second graders. Rather than opting for the easier non-competitive primary challenge they insisted on a difficult one. They spent hours trying to build structures out of fragile materials such … Continue reading
Making the choice
This past Sunday was Mother’s Day in the United States. A holiday inspired by Anna Jarvis, an educator, editor and business woman who never married or became a mother herself. Instead Jarvis campaigned to honor her own mother, a socially … Continue reading
Creative wiring
When it comes to creativity, evidently women’s appearance is important, far more than it should be. You will the large percent of singers, actors, dancers that are women. Their numbers continue to grow because their career is typically shorter than … Continue reading
To make or to show?
People often split creativity between the arts and sciences, placing painters, writers, composers, dancers and actors on one side, and biologist, chemists, mathematicians, psychologist and physicists on the other. There is another dichotomy apparent to anyone attempting innovation–the split of designing … Continue reading
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Tagged constructing, creativity in the arts, creativity in the sciences, performing
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Is creativity in men and women different?
Yearn to be recognized for creative achievement? Over forty? You may be too late – unless you are female. Creative production in a variety of fields – mathematics, medicine, physics, psychology – increased until age 30 -39 and then … Continue reading
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