Creativity has made headlines in recent years, lauded the #1 career skill of the future. Yet educators and social scientists have struggled to find an objective way to study creativity. Now, ...

Creativity isn’t a trait that some people have and others don’t. Before I explain why that’s true, let me first define what I mean by creativity. If one hundred people looked at the same abstract ...

Artificial intelligence is spreading through our lives. As it moves from new feeds to productivity tools, the boundary between what is human-made and machine-made is becoming almost invisible, ...

What is “creative nonfiction,” exactly? Isn’t the term an oxymoron? Creative writers—playwrights, poets, novelists—are people who make stuff up. Which means that the basic definition of “nonfiction ...

Intuitively, it seems different creative processes are involved in composing a sonnet and designing a circuit board. But a study published this month in the journal Thinking, Skills and Creativity ...

“If you can just release yourself from the anxiety and burden that might be associated with the word ‘creativity,'” Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love has written, “you’ll ...

Few terms in education are as ill-defined as creativity. A 2010 report on the study of creativity and innovation in education within European Union (EU) member countries (Cachia, Ferrari, Ala-Mutka, & ...

Genetic variations that can collectively increase a person’s risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can also be used to predict creativity, according to a new study published ...