Exploring the Psychology of Interest
- P. Silvia
- 13 April 2006
Psychology
Introduction PART 1: INTEREST AND EMOTION 1. Interest as an Emotion 2. What Is Interesting? 3. Interest and Learning PART II: INTERESTS AND PERSONALITY 4. Interest, Personality and Individual…
The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II: Development, Factor Structure, and Psychometrics.
- T. Kashdan, M. Gallagher, M. Steger
- 1 December 2009
Psychology
Journal of Research in Personality
Assessing Creativity With Divergent Thinking Tasks: Exploring the Reliability and Validity of New Subjective Scoring Methods
- P. Silvia, B. Winterstein, C. A. Richard
- 30 April 2008
Psychology
Divergent thinking is central to the study of individual differences in creativity, but the traditional scoring systems (assigning points for infrequent responses and summing the points) face…
Interest—The Curious Emotion
- P. Silvia
- 1 February 2008
Psychology
Despite their interest in why people do what they do, psychologists typically overlook interest itself as a facet of human motivation and emotion. In recent years, however, researchers from diverse…
What is interesting? Exploring the appraisal structure of interest.
- P. Silvia
- 1 March 2005
Psychology
Emotion
The appraisal perspective offers a powerful way of construing the causes of interest, and appraisals predicted interest beyond relevant traits (curiosity, openness).
For Whom the Mind Wanders, and When
- M. Kane, L. H. Brown, Jennifer C. McVay, P. Silvia, I. Myin-Germeys, T. Kwapil
- 1 July 2007
Psychology
Psychology Science
An experience-sampling study of 124 undergraduates, pretested on complex memory-span tasks, found that during challenging activities requiring concentration and effort, higher-WMC subjects maintained on-task thoughts better, and mind-wandered less, than did lower-W MC subjects.
Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics
- R. Beaty, M. Benedek, P. Silvia, D. Schacter
- 1 February 2016
Psychology, Art
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest
- R. Beaty, M. Benedek, A. Neubauer
- 1 November 2014
Psychology, Biology
Neuropsychologia
Emotional Responses to Art: From Collation and Arousal to Cognition and Emotion
- P. Silvia
- 1 December 2005
Art, Psychology
The study of emotional responses to art has remained curiously detached from the psychology of emotions. Historically, the leading tradition has been Daniel Berlyne's psychobiological model, embodied…
Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity
- R. Beaty, Yoed N. Kenett, P. Silvia
- 16 January 2018
Psychology, Biology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
A whole-brain network associated with high-creative ability comprised of cortical hubs within default, salience, and executive systems—intrinsic functional networks that tend to work in opposition is identified, suggesting that highly creative people are characterized by the ability to simultaneously engage these large-scale brain networks.
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