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Thursday, June 30, 2016
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Squeezing a Rubber Ball May Boost Creative Thinking | World of Psychology
Squeezing a Rubber Ball May Boost Creative Thinking | World of Psychology: Psychological research suggests a simple brain hack for temporarily boosting creativity and all it requires is a rubber ball. The technique itself is extremely simple: all you have to do is squeeze a rubber ball with your left hand as hard as you can for about a minute. An original study on this technique by four Israeli researchers (Goldstein et al., 2010) found that subjects who squeezed a rubber ball with their left hand solved noticeably more problems on a remote associates test, a standard test of convergent thinking. This form of creative thinking, usually contrasted with divergent thinking, is most useful for “connecting the dots:” combining existing information, comparing and juggling ideas, solving problems with some specified criteria, or extracting ideas from other information. A lot of real-world innovation or typical business problem-solving depends heavily on convergent thinking. The participants in the left hand group solved on average 50 percent more of the problems
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
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Monday, June 6, 2016
Sometimes things may happen to us not only to teach us something but to teach others as well. Madeleine P. Maya | HelpingOthersHelpThemselves on WordPress.com
Sometimes things may happen to us not only to teach us something but to teach others as well. Madeleine P. Maya | HelpingOthersHelpThemselves on WordPress.com: Counseling, Coaching, Psychology, Therapy
Sunday, June 5, 2016
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