Priming creativity: Doing math reduces creativity and happiness whereas playing short online games enhance them

Placebo can enhance creativity

BACKGROUND The placebo effect is usually studied in clinical settings for decreasing negative symptoms such as pain, depression and anxiety. There is interest in exploring the placebo effect also outside the clinic, for enhancing positive aspects of performance or cognition. Several studies indicate that placebo can enhance cognitive abilities including memory, implicit learning and general kno...

Sparking Motivation and Creativity with "Online Ideation Games"

In the context of innovation management organizations face two challenges: they must provide motivation for users to participate and they must inspire users to make creative contributions. One activity, which leads to motivation as well as creative outcome, is play. The paper aims to clarify if playing a multiplayer online game can motivate to generate creative ideas for real-world problems. Us...

Creativity. Creativity! Creativity?

Once we accept that there is something called creativity we are led to wonder how are the creative people and what are the creative acts. This wonderment compels us to understand the underlying cognitive process in a creative act and the hardware requirements for this process to go on. We then arrive at a position for seeking an implementable model of and the paradoxicalness involved therein. T...

International Journal of Role - Playing Creativity

Formalised Online Creativity using ThinXels

Computer-supported creativity tools are one example of Group Support Systems (GSS) which have been shown to outperform their traditional face-to-face counterparts. We present a framework for GSS which is based on formal languages and the new concept of a ThinXel. The name "ThinXel" (thinking element) is formed analogously to the wellknown "pixel" (picture element) in Computer Science. We claim ...