Creativity reflects the remarkable human capacity to produce novel and effective ideas.
Empirical work suggests that creative ideas do not just emerge out of nowhere but typically …

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 …

Despite six decades of creative cognition research, measures of creative ideation have
heavily relied on divergent thinking tasks, which still suffer from conceptual, design, and …

Aims Two studies are reported to give insight in the nature of creative problem solving in
primary school students. Study 1 focused on the process and aimed to determine to what …

A central tenet in creativity research is that individual differences in creative achievement
arise from the interplay of individual differences in creative potential. So far, however …

This paper investigates how information systems design professionals use design principles
(extracted from a prior design science research project) in a new design situation. We do this …

Creativity refers to original thinking that leads to new productions that have value in their
social context (see Runco & Jaeger, 2012). Creative thinking can be distinguished from …

Although there exists increasing knowledge about brain correlates underlying creative
ideation in general, the specific neurocognitive mechanisms implicated in different stages of …

Creative people differ substantially in how they approach their creative process. Thomas
Mann followed a highly rigid working schedule each day and shielded himself from all …

Hands-on activities in science learning are beneficial in enhancing creative thinking in
students. However, scant studies have probed the nature of creative thinking developed by …