Creative Intensive

Are you ready for Super Bowl 2008?
“In 2007, an average of 93.1 million Americans tuned in to the CBS Network to watch the Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears. The event averaged a 42.6% household rating, up from the 2006 match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks, which was watched by 90.7 million […]

Article review by
Senior Editors Kristi Ryan and Maggie Rieth
In their article “Measuring Climate for Work Group Innovation: Development and Validation of the Team Climate Inventory” Anderson and West search for a way to measure the climate for innovation in “shared perception” work groups. They define shared perception as a level of interdependence between […]

NPR Correspondent Ira Flatow Presents
From Dracula to Hedy Lamarr - The Many Catalysts of Creativity

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 6-7pm
Location: The Avaya Auditorium, The University of Texas at Austin (first floor of the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences building).

Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” show, will give a talk about […]

Article Reviewed: Hennessey B, Amabile T. Reward/Reality, Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity. American Psychologist. June 1998:674.
Hypothetical Conversation on Creativity, Reward and Motivation.
By Senior Editors Emily Hardy & Tim Ogletree

Imagine this…
INT. COFFEE SHOP - DAY
Robert Eisenberger sits alone, taking up a table for four. He hunches over his laptop with frustration riddling his face. Beth Hennessey and […]

Article Reviewed: Amabile, T. M., Conti, R., Coon, H., Lazenby, J., & Herron, M. (1996). Assessing the work environment for creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 39(5), 1154.
Creativity in the Workplace
Good for them (employees). Great for you (managers)
By Senior Editors Jaclyn Jacobson & Paige Phillips.
More and more researchers and managers nowadays realize the importance of […]

Article Reviewed: Ruscio J, Whitney D, Amabile T. Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance. Creativity Research Journal. 1998;11(3):243.
By Senior Editors Johnna Wagner and Natalia Urbanowicz.
Ever wonder why some people are more creative than others? What factors contribute to that creativity? Like you, many others have […]