Here’s how to demystify innovation and unlock it in your team. We have a complicated relationship with creativity. Intuitively, we understand its value—the ability to produce new ideas and novel ...

AMES, Iowa – The next time you need to get the creative juices flowing, playing some types of video games may help. Video games that foster creative freedom can increase creativity under certain ...

If you want to develop your own creative idea for a project, does it help to study how other people have approached the same task? One classic finding, called the conformity effect, shows that looking ...

Businesses flourish when the people driving them are creative and innovative. So naturally, leaders look for ways to bolster their team’s creativity in the face of challenges. And what is one of the ...

Are you as creative now as you were when you were a child? For many people, the answer is no. As we move into adulthood, we are often conditioned to be more serious and to conform to the norms of ...

Of all the so-called 21st-century skills, perhaps none is revered in both the education and business worlds as much as creativity. In the past year alone, creativity topped lists of the most valued ...

When I was at the beginning of my Ph.D. studies, my advisor at Stanford, Professor Gordon Bower, invited each of his first-year graduate students to his house for dinner. After dinner, he asked each ...

When we look at the world we live in today, it is easy to see how the technological advances have completely redefined the way we live and communicate. With the influx of social media apps, we are now ...

Creativity is a uniquely human quality that’s difficult to define and, perhaps, even harder to objectively measure. Of course, that doesn’t mean that scientists haven’t tried, and a study published in ...