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How Medium of Communication Impacts Our ThinkingWhen we write something, the ideas contained within it get frozen in time and space and those ideas become accessible for self reflection.
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Is Decline in Cultural Diversity Still Taking Place?Languages such as English have become more commonly spoken all over the world but the phonetics of English can still differ from region to region depending upon the needs of local communities that use it.
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What Large Scale Social Forces Can Impact Individual CreativityModern nations like United States are going through the process of shifting to post modernist values since having more and more income leads to diminishing returns and individuals then start looking at other ways to improve their subjective well being.
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Can Reading Fiction Change One's Personality?Lovers of art frequently make claims about being transformed by art, yet many researchers take such claims to be anecdotal.
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Is Unconscious Problem Solving, the "aha" Moment, Real?There are lots of anecdotal accounts of creative problem solving where individuals surprisingly come up with solutions to a problem that they were not consciously thinking about.
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What Can Einstein's Life Tell Us About Education System?Einstein would be labeled a problem child in today's education system, where the focus is to meet certain objectives in the curriculum and to raise particular kinds of test scores.
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Does Creativity Cause Insomnia?Successful creative individuals usually invest significant amount of time in their work. Research on Nobel laureates has shown that eminent scholars in any field spend an average of 10 hours/day on their work.
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Does Creativity Decline as We Age?As people become older, their knowledge about the world increases, and so does their IQ. But what about creativity? Is knowledge helpful or a hindrance in divergent thinking?
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Differences in Imaginary Companions Between Boys and GirlsResults of the study indicated that girls had more imaginary friends than boys. 42%of boys had imaginary companions in animal forms while it was 60% for the girls.
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Stress in Childhood a Predictor of Creative Writing in AdulthoodBeing depressed can also lead to writing creatively as creative writing can serve as an escape mechanism, a source for elevating mood, providing room for introspection, and depression helping in development of critical attitude.
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What Are the Common Characteristics of Nobel Laureates?Laureates consistently reported that having a supportive family was an important factor in their academic achievement.
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What Kind of Creative Person Are You?While individuals can differ in levels of creativity, they can also differ in creative styles. Two of creative styles discussed in creativity research are innovators and adaptors.
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Why Improvisation Enhances CreativityIt is a mistake to assume that creative works of Genius come into existence when people work in isolation. Beethoven's symphonies and Einstein's theory of relativity were products of social activity, not secluded contemplation.
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What Does it Mean to Be Creative?Everyone agrees that creativity is something new and interesting, but many also want the product of creativity to be good and useful. Just divergent thinking is not enough for claiming a thought to be creative.
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High Internet Use is Related to Low Emotional IntelligenceThe rise of the Internet has led to debate about whether Internet use can impact us negatively in being able to socialize with others. The main argument is that using Internet cuts one off from genuine social relationships and having an active social life
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Is God a Mere Production of Human Brain?Religious experiences may have evolved in human beings along with other mechanisms that led to increased rates of survival.
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Reading Humorous Books to Toddlers Promotes Abstract ThoughtExposure to humorous material increases exposure to abstract language, and this may increase children's abilities to think abstractly later in life.
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Does Being Religious Lead to Longer Life?Being religious is not an activity of solitude, but a social one. And being socially active has again and again shown to be a strong predictor of living a long life.
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Is Loneliness Contagious?Loneliness is not simply an individualistic characteristic but also a function of social groups. Lonely individuals tend to link up with other lonely individuals and this linkage can effect up to three degrees of separation.
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Why Online Forums Fail to Facilitate Learning ProcessA simple formula can be used to express elements involved in an online learning environment: Valued learning experience = F (pedagogy, content, community). As any of these three variables approach zero, the overall function also approaches the same value.
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How Off Line Stigma Can Affect Your Online RelationshipA common finding from research on online relationships has been that societal stigma exists against online relationships as one's friends and family devalue such deviations from social norms