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What Makes People More Creative Than Others?
By Hannah Grace | Feb 20, 2017 08:30 AM ESTExposure, practice and training still play essential roles in shaping one’s creativity.
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Innovative Thinking, Can We Measure It?
By Michelle Gil | Oct 30, 2013 10:51 AM EDTCreativity is the way our brains express our imagination. Painters, photographers, dancers, writers and all artists know the importance of it. We create when we think and observe, so essentially we all have the power to be creative.
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Study: A Woman Body Gives Signals of Peak Fertility Period
By Drishya Nair | Jul 10, 2012 09:08 AM EDTA latest research says that men may be able to tell a woman's fertile period by merely watching her walk and dance.
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Self-Distancing May Help Deal With Anger
By Staff Reporter | Jul 02, 2012 11:35 AM EDTThe next time you get angry, you might want to use a technique to reduce the frustration that's building up inside of you. A new study reveals a simple strategy that people can use to minimize how angry and aggressive they get when they are provoked by others.
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Business Students Better Equipped to Evaluate Peers
By Staff Reporter | May 24, 2012 08:02 PM EDTPeer evaluation is a touchstone of many business school classes. But does the process of rating the work of one’s classmates really shape better business people? A new study from Concordia’s John Molson School of Business, published in the journal Academy of Management Learning and Education, answers that question with a resounding yes.
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Egypt Movie Star Acquitted of Insulting Islam
By Shaimaa Fayed | Apr 28, 2012 01:47 AM EDTCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Adel Imam, the Arab world's most famous comic actor, had a conviction and three-month prison sentence for insulting Islam in his films and plays overturned on appeal, a state newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills
By Christine Hsu | Apr 12, 2012 02:17 PM EDTScientists found that men who drank two pints of beer or two glasses of wine before solving brain teasers were quicker in delivering correct answers.
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Study: Harry Potter Boosts Creativity
By Staff Reporter | Apr 02, 2012 01:58 AM EDTThe majority of parents dislike the idea of their kids sticking to the idiot box for long hours watching their favorite cartoons and movies. Now a study is saying that the stuff your kids watch may not always be harmful. On the contrary, some can help awaken the hidden creativity in him
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Stumped by a Problem? This Technique Unsticks You
By Staff Reporter | Mar 06, 2012 08:06 PM ESTStuck solving a problem? Seek the obscure, says Tony McCaffrey, a psychology PhD from the University of Massachusetts. “There’s a classic obstacle to innovation called ‘functional fixedness,’ which is the tendency to fixate on the common use of an object or its parts. It hinders people from solving problems.” McCaffrey has developed a systematic way of overcoming that obstacle: the “generic parts technique” (GPT), which he describes in the latest issue of Psychological Science, a journal publi...
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Morning-Types Are More Creative in the Evening
By Jennifer Lee | Mar 04, 2012 02:45 PM ESTA new study showed that the best time of day for creativity is different following the type of a person.
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Think Fast! Take Risks!
By Staff Reporter | Feb 28, 2012 08:48 PM ESTNew experiments show that the experience of thinking fast makes people more likely to take risks.
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Girls’ Verbal Skills Make Them Better At Arithmetic
By Staff Reporter | Feb 28, 2012 08:40 PM ESTWhile boys generally do better than girls in science and math, some studies have found that girls do better in arithmetic.
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Testing Creativity
By Staff Reporter | Jan 13, 2012 05:51 PM ESTWidow. Bite. Monkey. What word goes with these three words? This is the kind of question that is asked on the Remote Associates Test, which psychologists use to study creativity.
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To Children a Rose by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose
By Staff Reporter | Dec 29, 2011 07:01 PM ESTTwo vital parts of mentally organizing the world are classification, or the understanding that similar things belong in the same category; and induction, an educated guess about a thing’s properties if it’s in a certain category. There are reasons to believe that language greatly assists adults in both kinds of tasks. But how do young children use language to make sense of the things around them? It’s a longstanding debate among psychologists.
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Understanding the Psychological Science Behind Negotiations
By Staff Reporter | Nov 23, 2011 06:14 PM EST"Interestingly, from negotiation research we know that it is much easier to negotiate deals that involve gains, instead of losses," says Carsten de Dreu, Professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam.
