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View article: Humor as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Emotional Exhaustion and Depressive Symptoms in University Students and the General Population
Humor as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Emotional Exhaustion and Depressive Symptoms in University Students and the General Population Open
The search for resilience factors that could minimize the transition from burnout to depression may offer a valuable approach for depression prevention. The present study investigated whether humor could be such a potential resilience fact…
View article: Reduced integrity of white matter fiber tracts connecting frontal and posterior sites are associated with a higher propensity to experience meaningful coincidences
Reduced integrity of white matter fiber tracts connecting frontal and posterior sites are associated with a higher propensity to experience meaningful coincidences Open
The propensity to experience meaningful patterns in random arrangements and unrelated events is a personality trait with relationships to perceptual alterations and decreased working memory capacity. This study investigated the relationshi…
View article: Free Association Database for a 62-Word Dataset Including Emotion and Colour Terms in English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, and Spanish: Data from 14 Countries
Free Association Database for a 62-Word Dataset Including Emotion and Colour Terms in English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, and Spanish: Data from 14 Countries Open
This article presents a free association database containing responses to 62 stimulus words (including colour terms, emotion words, and common nouns) across seven languages: English, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, and Spani…
View article: Development and Behavioral Validation of the Dark Creativity Deception Battery (DCDB)
Development and Behavioral Validation of the Dark Creativity Deception Battery (DCDB) Open
Although creativity is commonly associated with positive outcomes, emerging research has highlighted its darker side, particularly in facilitating deceptive and unethical behavior. The present study introduces the Dark Creativity Deception…
View article: Fear of Losing Power and Malevolent Creativity in Organizational Leaders: The Moderating Role of Power as Responsibility
Fear of Losing Power and Malevolent Creativity in Organizational Leaders: The Moderating Role of Power as Responsibility Open
Leader's fear of power loss may motivate novel antisocial behavior toward employees. In this study, we hypothesized a positive relationship between leader's fear of power loss and leader's engagement in malevolent creativity toward employe…
View article: The Interoceptive Brain: Confidence Ratings and Accuracy Scores are Independently and Differently Associated With Task‐Related Alpha Power During the Heartbeat Tracking Task
The Interoceptive Brain: Confidence Ratings and Accuracy Scores are Independently and Differently Associated With Task‐Related Alpha Power During the Heartbeat Tracking Task Open
Cardiac interoception is important for health and can be assessed in terms of accuracy (IAcc) and sensibility (IS), at least. While IAcc measures the correspondence between recorded and perceived heartbeats, IS means the confidence in inte…
View article: Out of the Dark - Psychological Perspectives on People's Fascination with True Crime
Out of the Dark - Psychological Perspectives on People's Fascination with True Crime Open
The success of the true crime media genre narrating real-life crime stories reflects an avid human curiosity about tales of violence. Yet, despite popular speculations on the “who” and “why” of true crime consumption, psychological researc…
View article: Criminal Genius or Everyday Villain? A Comparison of Malevolent Creativity Among Prisoners, Police Officers, and the General Population
Criminal Genius or Everyday Villain? A Comparison of Malevolent Creativity Among Prisoners, Police Officers, and the General Population Open
Criminals allegedly use effective novelty to intentionally exploit and harm others (creative fraud, theft, and murder). However, empirical evidence that criminals possess higher malevolent creativity than individuals without criminal backg…
View article: Out of the Dark - Psychological Perspectives on People's Fascination with True Crime
Out of the Dark - Psychological Perspectives on People's Fascination with True Crime Open
The success of the true crime media genre narrating real-life crime stories reflects an avid human curiosity about tales of violence. Yet, despite popular speculations on the “who” and “why” of true crime consumption, psychological researc…
View article: MRI resting-state signature of the propensity to experience meaningful coincidences: a functional coupling analysis
MRI resting-state signature of the propensity to experience meaningful coincidences: a functional coupling analysis Open
The propensity to experience meaningful patterns in random arrangements and unrelated events shows considerable interindividual differences. Reduced inhibitory control (over sensory processes) and decreased working memory capacities are as…
View article: Experiencing more meaningful coincidences is associated with more real-life creativity? Insights from three empirical studies
Experiencing more meaningful coincidences is associated with more real-life creativity? Insights from three empirical studies Open
Literature suggests a link between creativity and the perception of meaningful patterns in random arrangements, which is coined apophenia, patternicity, synchronicity, or the experience of meaningful coincidences. However, empirical resear…
View article: Today’s positive affect predicts tomorrow’s experience of meaningful coincidences: a cross-lagged multilevel analysis
Today’s positive affect predicts tomorrow’s experience of meaningful coincidences: a cross-lagged multilevel analysis Open
The perception of meaningful patterns in random arrangements and unrelated events takes place in our everyday lives, coined apophenia, synchronicity, or the experience of meaningful coincidences. However, we do not know yet what predicts t…
View article: A comparative analysis of colour–emotion associations in 16–88‐year‐old adults from 31 countries
A comparative analysis of colour–emotion associations in 16–88‐year‐old adults from 31 countries Open
As people age, they tend to spend more time indoors, and the colours in their surroundings may significantly impact their mood and overall well‐being. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to provide informed guidance on colour ch…
View article: Asymmetric Activation of Frontal Brain Regions during Cognitive Reappraisal Generation—A Function of Implemented Reappraisal Strategy?
Asymmetric Activation of Frontal Brain Regions during Cognitive Reappraisal Generation—A Function of Implemented Reappraisal Strategy? Open
Prefrontal cortex activity facilitates emotion regulation by cognitive reappraisal. Yet, neuroimaging studies have yielded disparate findings as to whether relatively greater left or right prefrontal activity is more beneficial for reappra…
View article: Learning to be inventive in the face of statistics: A positive reappraisal intervention for statistics anxiety
Learning to be inventive in the face of statistics: A positive reappraisal intervention for statistics anxiety Open
Our findings delineate a promising expandable approach for helping students' cope with statistics anxiety in a healthier way.
View article: Functional EEG Alpha Activation Patterns During Malevolent Creativity
Functional EEG Alpha Activation Patterns During Malevolent Creativity Open
On the dark side of creativity, creative ideation is intentionally used to damage others. This first electroencephalogram (EEG) study on malevolent creativity investigated task-related power (TRP) changes in the alpha band while n = 89 par…
View article: Depressive Symptoms are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation
Depressive Symptoms are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation Open
Depressed mood has attracted little attention in creativity research. By comparison, psychotherapeutic studies have repeatedly associated depressive symptomatology with increased revenge ideation. Combining creativity and retaliatory ideat…
View article: Differential neural response to psychoanalytic intervention techniques during structural interviewing: A single-case analysis using EEG
Differential neural response to psychoanalytic intervention techniques during structural interviewing: A single-case analysis using EEG Open
Background Previous studies detected changes in the electroencephalographic (EEG) signal as an effect of psychoanalytic interventions. However, no study has investigated neural correlates of specific psychoanalytic interventions in the EEG…
View article: Women and men have a similar potential for malevolent creativity – But their underlying brain mechanisms are different
Women and men have a similar potential for malevolent creativity – But their underlying brain mechanisms are different Open
Research interest in gender differences in aggression and creative ideation cumulates in the phenomenon of malevolent creativity. Taking another critical step in understanding malevolent creativity, we investigated gender differences in br…
View article: Different Facets of Creativity in Employees Covering Non-Clinical to Clinical Manifestations of Burnout
Different Facets of Creativity in Employees Covering Non-Clinical to Clinical Manifestations of Burnout Open
Empirical studies exploring the relationship between burnout and creativity are very rare. In the present study, a well-defined group of clinical burnout patients (n = 75) and two groups of working people showing high (n = 39) vs. low burn…
View article: Functional brain activation patterns of creative metacognitive monitoring
Functional brain activation patterns of creative metacognitive monitoring Open
Creative metacognitive monitoring represents the ability to accurately evaluate the quality of own ideas during idea generation. To the best of our knowledge, this study presents the first EEG investigation of creative metacognitive monito…
View article: The ambulatory battery of creativity: Additional evidence for reliability and validity
The ambulatory battery of creativity: Additional evidence for reliability and validity Open
Psychometrically sound instruments that assess temporal dynamics of creative abilities are limited. The Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC) is designed to assess creative ideation performance multiple times in everyday life and was prov…
View article: Enjoying others’ distress and indifferent to threat? Changes in prefrontal-posterior coupling during social-emotional processing are linked to malevolent creativity
Enjoying others’ distress and indifferent to threat? Changes in prefrontal-posterior coupling during social-emotional processing are linked to malevolent creativity Open
Malevolent creativity is characterized by malicious interpersonal goals aimed at damaging others. Neurocognitive processing patterns of negative social-emotional signals may explain variance in this disruptive phenomenon. This study examin…
View article: Acute and Chronic Physical Activity Increases Creative Ideation Performance: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-analysis
Acute and Chronic Physical Activity Increases Creative Ideation Performance: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-analysis Open
Background Physical activity is a health-relevant lifestyle factor associated with various benefits on physical and mental health. Several meta-analyses indicated effects of acute and chronic physical activities on elementary cognitive fun…
View article: Antisocial Schizotypy Is Linked to Malevolent Creativity
Antisocial Schizotypy Is Linked to Malevolent Creativity Open
The personality trait of schizotypy has received considerable attention in creativity research; however, to date, literature has exclusively focused on its relationship with benevolent creative ideation. The present study investigated how …
View article: Creativity in an Affective Context
Creativity in an Affective Context Open
Everyday life often requires considerable creativity in dealing with challenging circumstances. This implies that creativity regularly operates in an affective context, however, this “C” of creativity is rarely addressed in contemporary re…
View article: Cross-Format Integration of Auditory Number Words and Visual-Arabic Digits: An ERP Study
Cross-Format Integration of Auditory Number Words and Visual-Arabic Digits: An ERP Study Open
Converting visual-Arabic digits to auditory number words and vice versa is seemingly effortless for adults. However, it is still unclear whether this process takes place automatically and whether accessing the underlying magnitude represen…