This investigation reassesses Graham Wallas's lifelong work on creativity, correcting 11 widespread misreadings that have shaped how scholars cite and apply his ideas. While "The Art of Thought" (1926) is the best known, Wallas's earlier and later writings reveal a broader framework for education, democracy, and human development. Far from…

I critically examine Wallas's influential stage model of creative thinking, particularly his dismissal of verification as unimaginative trudging. Wallas's deeply Romantic model exalts intimation and illumination, virtues that remain central to psychological research on creative problem solving. My thesis challenges this: creativity is enacted…

Societal traditions and rules guide human decision-making and action. Yet, sometimes humans break with traditions by devising creative solutions and sometimes they break rules to increase personal gains. Here we asked whether creativity and rule-breaking might have more in common than meets the eye, by exploring whether labeling identical actions…

Creativity has gained relevance over the years in education, and especially recently due to its consideration as a transversal competency in higher education, but there is still a lack of integration of knowledge. This qualitative systematic review explores literature on educational interventions designed to enhance creativity and investigates…

Measures of creative behavior have typically been developed for adults (Biographical Inventory of Creative Behavior [BICB]). Such measures are important for examining the mechanisms of creativity and for understanding how creativity education relates to creative behavior. In Japan, where creativity education has become increasingly emphasized in…

This study conducted a cross-sectional survey to examine the roles of creative self-efficacy and team creative efficacy in employees' and teams' creative performance in Japanese companies, which culturally emphasize group harmony. In total, 3589 employees and 476 supervisors answered the online surveys. After confirming the creative self-efficacy…

Cognitive control is known to support divergent thinking in adults, but findings in children remain mixed. This study examined the association between cognitive control--measured as a composite score from two executive function tasks--and verbal divergent thinking in 120 French-speaking school-aged children (aged 10 to 12 years). Originality and…

In the digital era, social media continues to consume an increasing share of individuals' time and attention. As a result, the association between social media use (SMU) and creativity has garnered growing interest in both public discourse and academic research, although empirical findings remain inconsistent. We conducted a meta-analysis of 31…

The introduction of the PISA 2022 Creative Thinking assessment underscores the growing need for scalable, valid, and reliable methods to evaluate creativity in international large-scale assessments. Traditional human scoring, while nuanced, is time-consuming, costly, and subject to inconsistencies. This paper explores recent advances in artificial…

The current study aims to provide a better understanding of the role of family support in promoting workplace creativity via improved individual resilience. Further investigating these relationships, the current study assessed data collected via an online survey of 278 participants. Consistent with existing research on the more general construct…

The media we consume may shape our cognition, emotion, and behavior. While violent media effects on aggression have been studied extensively, one popular media genre has escaped scrutiny until now: true crime, featuring real stories of assault, murder, or serial killings. We investigated the idea that the manifold examples of real human violence…

By positing the centrality of process-oriented definitions of creativity, the article revisits Graham Wallas's "The Art of Thought," showing that its legacy extends beyond the canonical four-stage model for the creative process. We first extract from Wallas's book some lesser known details that are proxies of metacognitive and emotional control.…

This study developed and validated a parent-report scale to assess preschoolers' everyday creativity in two samples from urban areas of eastern China. In Study 1, 551 parents (children's M[subscript age] = 4.76 years, SD = 1.21; 245 girls) of preschoolers completed the Young Children's Inventory of Creative Activities (YCICA). Item analysis,…

This study seeks to explore the moderating effect of gender, grade level, self-confidence in mathematics, and study time allocated for mathematics outside of school on the relationship between mathematical satisfaction and mathematical creativity. Data were collected from 452 students attending state middle schools in different cities. In addition…

This study examined the psychometric properties and cross-cultural validity of the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS). A total of 2937 participants from Brazil, China, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States completed the 13-item MCBS. Confirmatory factor analyses compared multiple factor structures (unidimensional,…