TY  - JOUR
A1  - Haase, Jennifer
A1  - Hanel, Paul H. P.
A1  - Gronau, Norbert
T1  - Creativity enhancement methods for adults
BT  - a meta-analysis
JF  - Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts
N2  - This meta-analysis synthesizes 332 effect sizes of various methods to enhance creativity. We clustered all studies into 12 methods to identify the most effective creativity enhancement methods. We found that, on average, creativity can be enhanced, Hedges’ g = 0.53, 95% CI [0.44, 0.61], with 70.09% of the participants in the enhancement conditions being more creative than the average person in the control conditions. Complex training courses, meditation, and cultural exposure were the most effective (gs = 0.66) while the use of cognitive manipulation drugs was the least and also noneffective, g = 0.10. The type of training material was also important. For instance, figural methods were more effective in enhancing creativity, and enhancing converging thinking was more effective than enhancing divergent thinking. Study effect sizes varied considerably across all studies and for many subgroup analyses, suggesting that researchers can plausibly expect to find reversed effects occasionally. We found no evidence of publication bias. We discuss theoretical implications and suggest future directions for best practices in enhancing creativity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
KW  - manipulation
KW  - enhancement
KW  - assessment
KW  - effectiveness
KW  - creativity training
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000557
SN  - 1931-3896
SN  - 1931-390X
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Arya, Pooja
A1  - Jelken, Joachim
A1  - Lomadze, Nino
A1  - Santer, Svetlana
A1  - Bekir, Marek
T1  - Kinetics of photo-isomerization of azobenzene containing surfactants
JF  - The journal of chemical physics : bridges a gap between journals of physics and journals of chemistry
N2  - We report on photoisomerization kinetics of azobenzene containing surfactants in aqueous solution. The surfactant molecule consists of a positively charged trimethylammonium bromide head group, a hydrophobic spacer connecting via 6 to 10 CH2 groups to the azobenzene unit, and the hydrophobic tail of 1 and 3CH(2) groups. Under exposure to light, the azobenzene photoisomerizes from more stable trans- to metastable cis-state, which can be switched back either thermally in dark or by illumination with light of a longer wavelength. The surfactant isomerization is described by a kinetic model of a pseudo first order reaction approaching equilibrium, where the intensity controls the rate of isomerization until the equilibrated state. The rate constants of the trans-cis and cis-trans photoisomerization are calculated as a function of several parameters such as wavelength and intensity of light, the surfactant concentration, and the length of the hydrophobic tail. The thermal relaxation rate from cis- to trans-state is studied as well. The surfactant isomerization shows a different kinetic below and above the critical micellar concentration of the trans isomer due to steric hindrance within the densely packed micelle but does not depend on the spacer length.
KW  - genomic DNA conformation
KW  - water-interface
KW  - light photocontrol
KW  - driven
KW  - manipulation
KW  - photoisomerization
KW  - molecules
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5135913
SN  - 0021-9606
SN  - 1089-7690
VL  - 152
IS  - 2
PB  - American Institute of Physics
CY  - Melville
ER  -