Man·Machine systems on creative thinking

Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers

The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking

ness of titles. The total Titles scores for Years 1984, 1990, 1998, and 2008 increased up to fifth grade, remained static in sixth grade, t(36,664)1⁄4 3.40, p1⁄4 .043, seventh and eighth grades, t(44,612)1⁄4 2.02, p1⁄4 .001, and high school, t(29,475)1⁄4 1.12, p1⁄4 .001, as Figure 1 shows. Titles scores significantly increased in adults, t(15,602)1⁄4 14.84, p< .001. FIGURE 1 Total Fluency, Orig...

Effects of Interruptions on Creative Thinking

Ubiquitous connectivity has brought about continuous interruptions to our thought processes and tasks. Many people have expressed the concern about potential deterioration of performance and productivity caused by the division of attention and fragmentation of thoughts associated with interruptions in the mass media and on the web. This research offers a novel insight into the effects of interr...

Functional Fixedness in Creative Thinking Tasks Depends on Stimulus Modality.

Pictorial examples during creative thinking tasks can lead participants to fixate on these examples and reproduce their elements even when yielding suboptimal creative products. Semantic memory research may illuminate the cognitive processes underlying this effect. Here, we examined whether pictures and words differentially influence access to semantic knowledge for object concepts depending on...

Mindful creativity: the influence of mindfulness meditation on creative thinking

Recently the interest in the neurocognitive and psychological effects of meditation, and in particular mindfulness-meditation (MM), has largely grown. From the eighties, research has focused on health benefits of MM and on the cognitive and emotional changes resulting from practice (Kabat-Zinn, 1994; Cahn and Polich, 2006). Several findings suggest that the “observe and accept” approach of MM m...