At first blush, intelligence and creativity seem like two separate things. High IQ is all about recalling and manipulating information consciously. Creativity often seems more mysterious — ideas ...

All other things being equal, it’s easier to manage employees who are predictable and rule-bound. Still, no human quality is universally beneficial, and even a trait as appealing as creativity can ...

According to lab experiments and a field study at a firm with offices worldwide, meeting face to face produced more ideas and ideas that were more creative than videoconference discussions. While the ...

Video conferencing is making us dumber and less creative — and that’s according to science. A laboratory study by Columbia Business School’s Melanie S. Brucks and Stanford’s Jonathan Levav found that ...

1889 self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, the unwitting poster boy for “tortured artists” everywhere (Public Domain image) Does exceptional art come from an artist’s pain? The persistent trope of the ...

Our schools and workplaces claim to love creativity — but the research shows they don’t reward it. In fact, they punish it. “…students with the highest GPA’s were the ones who scored lowest on ...