Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2022
The summer book list is a chance to peruse a collection of the most compelling behavioral science books published so far this year.
June 30th, 2022
creativity
May 24th, 2022
An In-The-Box Method for Creative Problem Solving
The solution to your problem has been discovered by someone, somewhere before.
November 02nd, 2020
Daydreaming Might Make You More Creative—But It Depends on What You Daydream About
We all daydream all the time, but not all daydreaming is equal. While most mundane mind wandering won’t prompt inspiration, new research suggests that frequently engaging in certain kinds of daydreams might lead to greater creativity.
September 03rd, 2019
How to Go to Burning Man Without Going to Burning Man
You don’t have to suffer through a dust storm to experience radical inclusion, generosity, and self-expression. How one behavioral scientist brought Burning Man home.
May 29th, 2018
From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader
Why, really, shouldn’t milk be pink? Curiosity and insistence on questioning the status quo are among the qualities that separate the people who can’t wait to get to work from the ones who count the minutes until they can leave.
“Bursty” Communication Can Help Remote Teams Thrive
Can remote teams achieve the productivity of the office and still allow the convenience of working at home?
June 14th, 2017
Rethinking Autism: From Social Awkwardness to Social Creativity
We’re now understanding what people on the autism spectrum have rather than what they lack.
March 08th, 2016
The Paradoxes of Creativity: Sensitive Rockers, Mindful Daydreamers, and Celebrated Outcasts
In their new book, Wired to Create, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman and author Carolyn Gregoire explore the contradictions of creativity. Creativity is never one thing or another, they find. It isn’t clean, it’s messy.
February 22nd, 2016
The Bias Against Creativity
As Asimov declared in his famous 1959 essay on creativity and idea generation, “The world in general disapproves of creativity.”
September 03rd, 2015
How Incentives Hinder Innovation
Imagine you are a CEO intent on increasing your employees’ creativity so that your company can be more innovative.
