Creative cognition does not just involve cognitive processes in direct service of the main task
objective (eg, idea generation), but also metacognitive processes that monitor and regulate …

Can we better understand the unique mechanisms of de novo abilities in light of our current
knowledge of the psychological and neuroscientific literature on creativity? This review …

Creative ideation constitutes an important human skill to develop innovative solutions in
science and technology and to overcome daily challenges. Although creative ideation takes …

Design is a highly nonlinear chaotic dynamic process with many possible solutions, some of
which can be creative. The chaotic nonlinearity of design dynamics triggers mental stresses …

Past research showed that apparently irrelevant information for a creative task at hand can
lead to higher creative performance, especially in open-minded individuals. Through two …

On the dark side of creativity, creative ideation is intentionally used to damage others. This
first electroencephalogram (EEG) study on malevolent creativity investigated task-related …

Evaluating creativity of verbal responses or texts is a challenging task due to psychometric
issues associated with subjective ratings and the peculiarities of textual data. We explore an …

Epistemic activities and emotions play an important role when generating, evaluating, and
selecting creative ideas. This is especially so when examining creative actions …

Psychometrically sound instruments that assess temporal dynamics of creative abilities are
limited. The Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC) is designed to assess creative ideation …

This paper introduces a new dynamic theoretical framework for understanding the role of
individual differences (IDs) as necessary mechanisms in the creative process: the Individual …