Critical thinking too often falls by the wayside in schools because there is a lack of consensus about how to teach it, and even what critical thinking is. One of the age-old goals of education is ...

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t ...

A new paper from my lab in the Journal of Research in Personality examined how people answer creative thinking tasks. We found that common advice to focus brainstorming sessions on the number and not ...

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