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Unearthing the Foundations: Testing the Universality of Moral Foundations Theory in Three Small-Scale Populations Open

Michał Misiak, Mariola Paruzel‐Czachura, Marina Butovskaya, Maciej Karwowski, Piotr Sorokowski · 2025

Moral Foundations Theory proposes five universal moral domains—Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Purity—but its empirical support has largely been drawn from affluent, highly educated societies. This limits both the generalisability …

STEM Workshop Learning: Content Load Effects on Cognitive, Interaction, and Emotional Outcomes Open

Marcin Gierczyk, Maciej Karwowski, Fred Paas, Robert H. Tai · 2025

Artificial Intelligence Enhances Human Creativity Through Real-Time Evaluative Feedback Open

Pier‐Luc de Chantal, Roger E. Beaty, Antonio Laverghetta, Jimmy Pronchick, John Patterson , et al. · 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into creative work continues to expand, yet its impact on human creativity itself—beyond simply providing ideas—remains uncertain. We reposition AI’s role from idea generator to idea evaluato…

Personality-based analysis of resilience and aggressive behaviour: A latent profile approach Open

Karol Konaszewski, Sebastian Binyamin Skalski‐Bednarz, Janusz Surżykiewicz, Arkadiusz Urbanek, Maciej Karwowski · 2025

Personality traits reflect patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that are characteristic of people. A person who manifests an intensity of certain traits is expected to behave in a manner consistent with the behavioural repertoire a…

Automated assessment of creativity in multilingual narratives. Open

Simone Luchini, Ibraheem Muhammad Moosa, John Patterson, Dan R. Johnson, Matthijs Baas , et al. · 2025

Researchers and educators interested in creative writing need a reliable and efficient tool to score the creativity of narratives, such as short stories. Typically, human raters manually assess narrative creativity, but such subjective sco…

Temporal relationship between perceptions of educational situations and aggressiveness among juveniles Open

Karol Konaszewski, Radosław Rogoza, Seweryn Nogalski, Maciej Karwowski · 2025

The aim of the study was to analyze the temporal relationship between psychological perceptions (i.e., situational DIAMONDS) of educational situations and aggressiveness among juveniles (N=726) referred by the courts to educational and pro…

Personality Types and Educational Situation Perception in Juveniles from Youth and Probation Centers Open

Karol Konaszewski, Małgorzata Fajkowska, Marta Rogoza, Radosław Rogoza, Maciej Karwowski · 2024

People differ in their perception of various situations, and personality factors are vital predictors of such perceptions. With a large sample (N = 658) of Polish juveniles referred by family courts to educational and probation centers, th…

8 Confirmation work in Poland Open

Bogusław Milerski, Maciej Karwowski, Elżbieta Byrtek · 2024

Humor Self-Concepts and Personality: Locating Humor Efficacy and Identity Beliefs Within Extraversion, Openness, and Imagination Open

Paul J. Silvia, Rebekah Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, Maciej Karwowski · 2024

People’s beliefs about their ability to be funny, like their creative self-beliefs more generally, are important to understanding their creative goals, actions, and achievements in the domain of humor. Paralleling general creative self-con…

Automated Assessment of Creativity in Multilingual Narratives Open

Simone Luchini, Moosa Ibraheem Muhammad, John Patterson, Dan R. Johnson, Matthijs Baas , et al. · 2024

Researchers and educators interested in creative writing need a reliable and efficient tool to score the creativity of narratives, such as short stories. Typically, human raters manually assess narrative creativity, but such subjective sco…

Unearthing the Foundations: Testing the Universality of Moral Foundations Theory in Three Non-Industrialised Populations [Conference Presentation Abstract] Open

Michał Misiak, Mariola Paruzel‐Czachura, Marina Butovskaya, Maciej Karwowski, Piotr Sorokowski · 2024

Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries Open

Agata Groyecka-Bernard, Piotr Sorokowski, Maciej Karwowski, S. Craig Roberts, Toivo Aavik , et al. · 2024

Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is…

Be curious: Strategic curiosity drives creativity Open

Maciej Karwowski, Aleksandra Zielińska · 2024

Ivancovsky et al. provide a compelling argument for the role of curiosity in creative thinking. We argue that (a) trait-like curiosity is necessary to engage in creative actions and (b) state-like curiosity might be effectively and strateg…

Sources of Teacher Efficacy Questionnaire: Psychometric characteristics of Polish adaptation Open

Elżbieta Strutyńska, Magdalena Boczkowska, Maciej Karwowski · 2023

The study presents the theoretical basis and psychometric properties of the Sources of Teacher Efficacy Questionnaire (STEQ), by C. K. W. Hoi and co-authors in the Polish adaptation. The sample included 946 teachers. Confirmatory factor an…

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Maciej Karwowski, Alexander McKay, Selçuk Acar, Sergio Agnoli, John Baer , et al. · 2023

Artificial Intelligence & Creativity: A Manifesto for Collaboration Open

Florent Vinchon, Todd Lubart, Sabrina Bartolotta, Valentin Gironnay, Marion Botella , et al. · 2023

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), the field of creativity faces new opportunities and challenges. This manifesto explores several scenarios of human–machine collaboration on creative tasks and proposes “fundamental laws of g…

Artificial Intelligence & Creativity: A manifesto for collaboration Open

Florent Vinchon, Todd Lubart, Sabrina Bartolotta, Valentin Gironnay, Marion Botella , et al. · 2023

Creativity is a phenomenon that emerges in the human-sociocultural and machine-artificial layers. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the field of creativity faces new opportunities and challenges. This manifesto explores seve…

Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks. Open

Boris Forthmann, Maciej Karwowski, Roger E. Beaty · 2023

The Death Education at School Questionnaire: Theoretical Assumptions and Psychometric Properties Open

Agnieszka Zamarian, Maciej Karwowski, Elżbieta Strutyńska · 2022

This paper presents theoretical assumptions and psychometric properties of the Death Education at School Questionnaire (DESQ): a brief instrument that allows to measure attitudes toward human-centered death education as an element of schoo…

Self-Efficacy in Gifted and Non-Gifted Students: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis Open

Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi, Zainab M. Sultan, Maciej Karwowski, Tracy L. Cross, A. Ayoub · 2022

This meta-analysis examined the difference between gifted and non-gifted students in one of the most critical motivational constructs: self-efficacy - the “I can” belief. In total, 25 studies (m = 70; N = 42,736) were analyzed using a thre…

The relationship of divergent thinking with broad retrieval ability and processing speed: A meta-analysis Open

Kirill G. Miroshnik, Boris Forthmann, Maciej Karwowski, Mathias Benedek · 2022

The present study aimed to integrate evidence on the relationship among divergent thinking (DT), broad retrieval ability (Gr), and processing speed (Gs) with a three-level meta-analytic approach. The analysis was conducted on 536 effect si…

Teachers’ self-efficacy: sources and the role of the fulfilled professional role Open

Elżbieta Strutyńska, Maciej Karwowski · 2022

Self-efficacy is a vital factor that makes achieving goals more likely. That applies to teachers’ activity as well. The aim of the study presented in this article was to examine whether teachers who differ in the dominant pattern of their …

School engagement, sensitivity to criticism and academic achievement in children: The predictive role of theory of mind Open

Joanna Smogorzewska, Grzegorz Szumski, Sandra Bosacki, Paweł Grygiel, Maciej Karwowski · 2021

On surface and core predictors of real-life creativity Open

Izabela Lebuda, Aleksandra Zielińska, Maciej Karwowski · 2021

Which factors drive creative activity and achievement? Here, we explore this question with a special focus on both core, to a large extent biologically rooted (e.g., personality, intelligence), and surface, more malleable and socio-cultura…

Children's implicit theories of creativity in science Open

Katarzyna Potęga vel Żabik, Łukasz Tanaś, Ilona Iłowiecka‐Tańska, Maciej Karwowski · 2021

Science is a source of innovation, but are scientists perceived as creative? This question seems particularly important, as the way in which science and scientists are perceived might affect students' attitudes towards STEM (Science, Techn…

Self-Regulation in Creative Learning: Agentic Perspective Open

Aleksandra Zielińska, Izabela Lebuda, Dorota M. Jankowska, Maciej Karwowski · 2021

Creativity is agentic, and so is learning. People create and learn new things most effectively when they are convinced that they can respond appropriately to the task (creative confidence) and value the activity at hand. This investigation…

How Is Intelligence Test Performance Associated with Creative Achievement? A Meta-Analysis Open

Maciej Karwowski, Marta Czerwonka, Ewa Wiśniewska, Boris Forthmann · 2021

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the links between intelligence test scores and creative achievement. A three-level meta-analysis of 117 correlation coefficients from 30 studies found a correlation of r = .16 (95% CI: .12, .19), clos…

The Relationship between Intelligence and Divergent Thinking—A Meta-Analytic Update Open

Anne Gerwig, Kirill G. Miroshnik, Boris Forthmann, Mathias Benedek, Maciej Karwowski , et al. · 2021

This paper provides a meta-analytic update on the relationship between intelligence and divergent thinking (DT), as research on this topic has increased, and methods have diversified since Kim’s meta-analysis in 2005. A three-level meta-an…

How is Intelligence Test Performance Associated with Creative Achievement? A Meta-Analysis Open

Maciej Karwowski, Marta Czerwonka, Ewa Wiśniewska, Boris Forthmann · 2021

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the links between intelligence test scores and creative achievement. A three-level meta-analysis of 117 correlation coefficients from 30 studies has found a correlation of r = .16 (95% CI: .12, .19), …

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