Increases in EEG alpha power during creative ideation are among the most consistent findings in the neuroscientific study of creativity, but existing studies did not focus on time-related changes of EEG alpha activity patterns during the process of creative ideation so far. Since several cognitive processes are involved in the generation of creative ideas, different EEG correlates may result as...

Creative work is often conducted in distributed groups. Therefore information exchange is frequently facilitated by groupware systems. However, group work suffers from several losses such as information overload, production blocking, free riding, evaluation apprehension and production matching and yet has not been tailored to the need of creative work. In order to reduce these losses and to bes...

Idea Generation has been a topic of creativity research for centuries. A wealth of creative processes has been devised to overcome difficulties at the perceptual, emotional, and cultural levels. Brainstorming in particular has grown to become synonymous with idea generation. This paper discusses our preliminary study on current conception of brainstorming and calls for future studies that help ...

Creative work is often conducted in distributed groups. Therefore information exchange is frequently facilitated by groupware systems. However, group work suffers from several losses such as information overload, production blocking, free riding, evaluation apprehension and production matching and yet has not been tailored to the need of creative work. In order to reduce these losses and to bes...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to outline ways in which the large body of empirical work on creativity can meaningfully inform negotiation. In doing so, two general streams of creativity research and their implications for negotiation theory and empirical analysis are considered. Negotiation pundits advise that negotiators should engage in creative problem-solving to craft integrative...