How to deal with anger and fear creatively
An important aim of our research is to gain a better understanding of creativity in areas that are closer to everyday life. Creativity can be helpful in everyday life, for example, in the creative re-evaluation of annoying situations from our everyday lives.
► FWF scilog: How anger and fear can be managed creatively
►Perchtold-Stefan et al (2021) Creativity in an Affective Context
Creativity in soccer now measurable
Creativity is also indispensable in sport. Moves in soccer matches, for example, are often very original, surprising and effective. In addition to technical and physical skills, creative abilities are therefore important components for scoring goals. Studies from our field of work have shown that creative solutions in soccer situations are associated with diverse cognitive and creativity-related activation patterns in the brain, which further underlines the particular importance of thinking skills in sport.
► FWF scilog: Creativity in soccer can now be measured
► Rominger et al. (2021) Brain activation during the observation of real soccer game situations predicts creative goal scoring
Further media links see below ► Creativity Science Facts
Malevolent creativity
Creativity also has a dark side. In fact, we can be very creative when we deliberately want to harm others. This "malevolent creativity" has many faces, which we would like to better understand in our recent work.
►Perchtold-Stefan et al. (2020) Creative, Antagonistic, and Angry? Exploring the Roots of Malevolent Creativity with a Real-World Idea Generation Task
