Creativity

We are exploring human creativity at different levels of analyses, including genetic and environmental aetiology, cognitive processes, motivation, personality, and educational interventions.

Some of our previous publications from this work:

Nothing But Stereotypes? Negligible Sex Differences Across Creativity Measures in Science, Arts, and Sports Adolescent High Achievers

Vlada Repeykova ∙ Teemu Toivainen ∙ Maxim Likhanov ∙ Kim van Broekhoven ∙ Yulia Kovas

Visual and Linguistic Stimuli in the Remote Associates Test: A Cross-Cultural Investigation

Teemu Toivainen ∙ Ana-Maria Olteteanu ∙ Vlada Repeykova ∙ Maxim Likhanov ∙ Yulia Kovas

Creative Storytelling in Childhood is Related to Exam Performance at Age 16

Teemu Toivainen ∙ Margherita Malanchini ∙ Bonamy R. Oliver ∙ Yulia Kovas

Creative expressiveness in childhood writing predicts educational achievement beyond motivation and intelligence: A longitudinal, genetically informed study

Teemu Toivainen ∙ Juan J Madrid-Valero ∙ Robert Chapman ∙ Andrew McMillan ∙ Bonamy R. Oliver ∙ D. Matsepuro ∙ Yulia Kovas

What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores

Birsu Kandemirci ∙ Roger E. Beaty ∙ Dan Johnson ∙ Bonamy R. Oliver ∙ Yulia Kovas ∙ Teemu Toivainen

Assessing Creative Expressiveness In Children’s Written Stories Using The Consensual Assessment Technique

Teemu Toivainen ∙ Isabella Badini ∙ Robert Chapman ∙ Margherita Malanchini ∙ Bonamy R. Oliver ∙ Daria Matsepuro ∙ Yulia Kovas