Myths about creativity keep contributing to its mysterious aura despite our increasing scientific understanding of this complex phenomenon. This study examined the prevalence known myths across six countries from diverse cultural backgrounds and explored why some people believe in them more than others. Results revealed persistent, wide-spread biases public conception creativity, such as attributing creative achievements spontaneity chance rather persistence expertise. Firmer belief was...

Abstract Introduction Many goal‐directed and spontaneous everyday activities (e.g., planning, mind wandering) rely on an internal focus of attention. Internally directed cognition (IDC) was shown to differ from externally in a range neurophysiological indicators such as electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha activity eye behavior. Methods In this EEG–eye‐tracking coregistration study, we investigated effects attention direction EEG various relevant parameters. We used established paradigm...

Abstract Creativity research crucially relies on creativity evaluations by external raters, but it is not clear what properties characterize good raters. In the present study, we investigated whether rater personality and are related to discernment (i.e., ability distinguish creative from uncreative responses) when evaluating others’ responses. To this end, 166 novice raters evaluated a pre‐selected set of responses alternate uses task for creativity. We further assessed rater’s explored...

Abstract Eye behavior is increasingly used as an indicator of internal versus external focus attention both in research and application. However, available findings are partly inconsistent, which might be attributed to the different nature employed types cognition tasks. The present study, therefore, investigated how consistently eye parameters respond attentional across three task modalities: numerical, verbal, visuo‐spatial. Three robustly differentiated between all Blinks, pupil diameter...

Many goal-directed, as well spontaneous everyday activities (e.g., planning, mind-wandering), rely on an internal focus of attention. This fMRI-eye-tracking coregistration study investigated brain mechanisms and eye behavior related to internally versus externally directed cognition. Building established paradigm, we manipulated attention demands within tasks utilizing conditional stimulus masking. Internally cognition involved bilateral activation the lingual gyrus inferior parietal lobe...

While digitalization is thought to have a major impact on creativity, little known about how digital tools support the creative process across specific stages and domains. Building newdigital creativity framework that considers role of tool features (i.e., functions, content, community) separable in ideation, production, presentation), two survey studies (N1 = 497, N2 1200) examined relevance type used eight We found while pervade all process, there are notable differences extent feature...

The success of the true crime media genre narrating real-life stories reflects an avid human curiosity about tales violence. Yet, despite popular speculations on “who” and “why” consumption, psychological research this phenomenon is lacking. In article, we highlight perspectives why consumption may be critical interest to various fields that go beyond simple preferences. Additionally, present a large-scale behavioral investigation which aims provide first empirical insights into...

The integration of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into creative domains has reshaped how individuals approach artistic tasks, raising critical questions about human agency in AI-assisted creation. This qualitative study explored experience and negotiate during co-creative tasks with AI, focusing on image generation writing. Using think-aloud protocols post-task semi-structured interviews, we conducted a thematic analysis to identify four central dimensions agency: self-efficacy,...

Creativity is a fundamental ability of humans, vital to most domains work and art. With the rising popularity generative AI, research needed determine its costs benefits for human creativity. We conducted naturalistic study with university students (N = 263) who wrote short-stories without help ChatGPT. Stories written AI assistance were significantly more original, but also semantically similar each other (i.e., less diverse). Critically, using novel analysis participant-AI interactions, we...

Creativity is a fundamental ability of humans, vital to most domains work and art. With the rising popularity generative AI, research needed determine its costs benefits for human creativity. We conducted naturalistic study with university students (N = 263) who wrote short-stories without help ChatGPT. Stories written AI assistance were significantly more original, but also semantically similar each other (i.e., less diverse). Critically, using novel analysis participant-AI interactions, we...

Creativity is a fundamental ability of humans, vital to most domains work and art. With the rising popularity generative AI, research needed determine its costs benefits for human creativity. We conducted naturalistic study with university students (N = 263) who wrote short-stories without help ChatGPT. Stories written AI assistance were significantly more original, but also semantically similar each other (i.e., less diverse). Critically, using novel analysis participant-AI interactions, we...

Inspiring statements about creativity from eminent figures circulate on social media and beyond but their psychological impact is unexplored. This research identifies the most popular quotes creativity, investigates how they relate to individual beliefs creative process (role of spontaneous deliberate ideation) person (fixed malleable mindset), explores specificity with respect creativity. First, through data mining content, study 1 identified 445 unique creativity-tagged attributed 318...

Often, various modalities capture distinct aspects of particular mental states or activities. While machine learning algorithms can reliably predict numerous human cognition and behavior using a single modality, they benefit from the combination multiple modalities. This is why hybrid BCIs are gaining popularity. However, it not always straightforward to combine features multimodal dataset. Along with method for generating features, one must decide when should be combined during...

The present study explored the public conceptualization of creativity on Twitter through co-listed hashtags associated with #creativity in a million tweets. Exploratory Graph Analysis was used to identify network semantic clusters, and pre-trained language model yielded sentiment underlying clusters reflect well-known everyday creative domains focused visual digital arts, storytelling, handicraft. Other paid tribute role mind-sets, teams, imagination, feature business innovation, stress...

Abstract Digitalization, underpinned by the ongoing pandemic, has transferred many of our everyday activities to online places. In this study, we wanted find out what outlets people use share their creative work and why they do it. We found that most posted at least a few times per year. They especially shared content related cooking, visual art, literature but hardly performing art. YouTube , Facebook Instagram were three platforms with highest familiarity usage rates; among these, was...

Evaluating creativity of verbal responses or texts is a challenging task due to psychometric issues associated with subjective ratings and the peculiarities textual data. We explore an approach objectively assess in sentence generation 1) better understand what language-related aspects are valued by human raters 2) further advance developments toward automating evaluations. Over course two prior studies, participants generated 989 four-word sentences based on four-letter prompt instruction...

The success of the true crime media genre narrating real-life stories reflects an avid human curiosity about tales violence. Yet, despite popular speculations on “who” and “why” consumption, psychological research this phenomenon is lacking. In article, we highlight perspectives why consumption may be critical interest to various fields that go beyond simple preferences. Additionally, present a large-scale behavioral investigation which aims provide first empirical insights into...

Media impact people's beliefs and reflect shared cultural values. One of the most popular TV online program formats are talent shows, where people present skills from different domains assessed by a panel celebrity judges. This kind media content is rich in information about presumed nature abilities. In paper, we examine how mindsets—the implicit theories regarding innate or malleable abilities—are expressed shows three countries differing individualism collectivism: China, Poland, USA....

With the media’s omnipresence, beneficial and detrimental effects on human behavior—including creativity—are being widely discussed. This essay presents potential benefits of passive active media use for enhancing creative thinking behavior. Based classic socio-cognitive theory observational learning stressing importance self-beliefs, certain types content activities are highlighted to demonstrate how traditional modern can shape positive creativity—contributing novel valuable behavior from...

Twitter has become a popular platform for sharing and discussing everyday experiences, including creativity. In this study, we explored the public conceptualization of creativity on by analyzing co-listed hashtags associated with term #creativity in millions tweets. Exploratory Graph Analysis was used to identify network semantic clusters, pre-trained language model yielded sentiment underlying addition, compared creativity-network related concept #innovation. The clusters reflect, one hand,...

Quantum computing (QC) research has gained a lot of momentum recently due to several theoretical analyses that indicate QC is significantly more efficient at solving certain classes problems than classical computing. While experimental validation will ultimately be required, the primitive nature current hardware leaves practical testing limited trivial examples. Thus, robust simulator needed study complex issues. Most simulators model ideal operations, and thus cannot predict actual time...

Creative behaviors are increasingly impacted by digital technologies, but little is known about the way technologies support everyday creativity and what factors predict their creative use. We investigated to extent individual differences in person-specific (creativity, personality) platform-specific (e.g., perceived support) characteristics relate use of Instagram. Results from a sample 191 Instagram users revealed that more frequent was related greater engagement behaviors, self-beliefs,...