Anna Abraham
Biographic Data
| ID | 4469106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Abraham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Abraham |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4954-8205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Predictors of Change in Creative Thinking Abilities in Young People
Previous research has examined how creative potential develops during childhood and has identified peaks, slumps, and bumps during maturation. However, little is known about the causes of such changes. This study employed a longitudinal approach to assess predictors of change in creative ideation over 2 years in young people ( N = 76) aged 14–20 years old at the first time point. The analysis employed frequentist and Bayesian methods to evaluate …
Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894 and 2022
Why the standard definition of creativity fails to capture the creative act
The “standard definition” of creativity holds that a creative idea is one that is novel and useful. This judgement is customarily based on an external frame of reference as it is passed by people who are receiving the idea (the recipient). The internal frame of reference of the person who has generated the idea (the creator) is usually ignored. I make two cases in this paper. First, that employing external frames of reference in assessing creativ…
Predictors of creativity in young people
© 2020 American Psychological Association. The development of creativity in young children has been studied extensively, but relatively few studies have examined the period of adolescence and emerging adulthood in relation to creative potential. The present study uses a combination of frequentist and Bayesian analyses to evaluate the impact of individual factors (e.g., IQ) and contextual factors (e.g., pursuit of creative hobbies) on creative ide…
How We Tell Apart Fiction from Reality
The human ability to tell apart reality from fiction is intriguing. Through a range of media, such as novels and movies, we are able to readily engage in fictional worlds and experience alternative realities. Yet even when we are completely immersed and emotionally engaged within these worlds, we have little difficulty in leaving the fictional landscapes and getting back to the day-to-day of our own world. How are we able to do this? How do we ac…
The role of personality traits and leisure activities in predicting wellbeing in young people
The study not only confirms the importance of personality traits as predictors of wellbeing in adolescents and young adults, but also indicates the necessity to consider the impact of leisure activities in different conceptions of wellbeing. The negative relationship between creative potential and wellbeing is in line with the literature which shows a link between mental illness, particularly at subclinical levels, and creativity
Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing
The Ingredients of the Creative Mind
Book Review| April 01 2021 The Ingredients of the Creative Mind Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation, By Elkhonon Goldberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. 296 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. Anna Abraham Anna Abraham School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, City Campus CL919, Leeds LS1 3HE, England, E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The American Journ…
The Problem of Equating Content with Process in the Mythopoetic Model
Minds, persons, and space
Insight problem solving in individuals with high versus low schizotypy
Conceptual expansion and creative imagery as a function of psychoticism
Why the standard definition of creativity fails to capture the creative act
The “standard definition” of creativity holds that a creative idea is one that is novel and useful. This judgement is customarily based on an external frame of reference as it is passed by people who are receiving the idea (the recipient). The internal frame of reference of the person who has generated the idea (the creator) is usually ignored. I make two cases in this paper. First, that employing external frames of reference in assessing creativ…
Conceptual expansion and creative imagery as a function of psychoticism
Insight problem solving in individuals with high versus low schizotypy
Minds, persons, and space
Conceptual expansion via novel metaphor processing
The Ingredients of the Creative Mind
Book Review| April 01 2021 The Ingredients of the Creative Mind Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation, By Elkhonon Goldberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. 296 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. Anna Abraham Anna Abraham School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, City Campus CL919, Leeds LS1 3HE, England, E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The American Journ…
The Problem of Equating Content with Process in the Mythopoetic Model
Predictors of creativity in young people
© 2020 American Psychological Association. The development of creativity in young children has been studied extensively, but relatively few studies have examined the period of adolescence and emerging adulthood in relation to creative potential. The present study uses a combination of frequentist and Bayesian analyses to evaluate the impact of individual factors (e.g., IQ) and contextual factors (e.g., pursuit of creative hobbies) on creative ide…
How We Tell Apart Fiction from Reality
The human ability to tell apart reality from fiction is intriguing. Through a range of media, such as novels and movies, we are able to readily engage in fictional worlds and experience alternative realities. Yet even when we are completely immersed and emotionally engaged within these worlds, we have little difficulty in leaving the fictional landscapes and getting back to the day-to-day of our own world. How are we able to do this? How do we ac…
The role of personality traits and leisure activities in predicting wellbeing in young people
The study not only confirms the importance of personality traits as predictors of wellbeing in adolescents and young adults, but also indicates the necessity to consider the impact of leisure activities in different conceptions of wellbeing. The negative relationship between creative potential and wellbeing is in line with the literature which shows a link between mental illness, particularly at subclinical levels, and creativity
Predictors of Change in Creative Thinking Abilities in Young People
Previous research has examined how creative potential develops during childhood and has identified peaks, slumps, and bumps during maturation. However, little is known about the causes of such changes. This study employed a longitudinal approach to assess predictors of change in creative ideation over 2 years in young people ( N = 76) aged 14–20 years old at the first time point. The analysis employed frequentist and Bayesian methods to evaluate …
Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894 and 2022
Why the standard definition of creativity fails to capture the creative act
The “standard definition” of creativity holds that a creative idea is one that is novel and useful. This judgement is customarily based on an external frame of reference as it is passed by people who are receiving the idea (the recipient). The internal frame of reference of the person who has generated the idea (the creator) is usually ignored. I make two cases in this paper. First, that employing external frames of reference in assessing creativ…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Creativity (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)