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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

EducationGreensboro, North Carolina, United States
About: University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a education organization based out in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 5481 authors who have published 13715 publications receiving 456239 citations. The organization is also known as: UNCG & UNC Greensboro.


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TL;DR: This article found that when people were asked to come up with a lot of ideas and creativity was scored as fluency, intelligence weakly predicted creativity, while intelligence more strongly predicted creativity.
Abstract: The “be creative effect”—instructing people to “be creative” before a divergent thinking task makes the responses more creative—is one of the oldest findings in creativity science. The present research suggests that this seemingly simple effect has underappreciated implications for the assessment of divergent thinking and for theories of the executive and controlled nature of creative thought. An experiment measured fluid intelligence and gave 2 divergent thinking tasks: people completed one with “be creative” instructions and the other with “be fluent” (generate as many ideas as possible) instructions. The responses were scored for creativity (using subjective scoring) and for fluency (the total number of ideas). Multilevel latent variable models found, not surprisingly, a large effect of task instructions: asking people to be creative yielded better but fewer responses, suggesting a focus on quality over quantity. Notably, the study replicated both sides of the contentious intelligence-and-creativity literature. When people were told to come up with a lot of ideas and creativity was scored as fluency, intelligence weakly predicted creativity. But when people were told to be creative and creativity was scored as subjective ratings, intelligence more strongly predicted creativity. We conclude with implications for the assessment of creativity, for models of the intentional and controlled nature of creative thought, and for the ongoing debate over creativity and intelligence.

172 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the implications of appraisal theories of emotion for the study of interest as an emotion relevant to aesthetics and found that both appraisals significantly and strongly predicted interest at the within-person level.
Abstract: Since Berlyne’s seminal research, the study of experimental aesthetics has examined interest as a response to art. The present research explores the implications of appraisal theories of emotion for the study of interest as an emotion relevant to aesthetics. Participants viewed pictures of modern experimental visual art and rated each picture for interest and for appraisals of complexity and comprehensibility. Multilevel modeling assessed the within-person effects of appraisals on interest. As predicted by appraisal theories, both appraisals significantly and strongly predicted interest at the within-person level. The within-person relationships were not moderated by individual-differences relevant to interest in art (e.g., trait curiosity). Theories of “aesthetic response” should capitalize on modern theories and findings in emotion psychology. In the decades following Berlyne’s (1971, 1974) seminal research on “the new experimental aesthetics,” a large literature has accumulated on people’s subjective reactions to art. Much of this research has been guided by Berlyne’s theorizing about the role of collative variables and arousal in determining the reward value of artistic stimuli. The collative–arousal theory of motivation that underlies Berlyne’s research has proved surprisingly resilient, given that psychology has moved away from arousal models of reward and from the concept of “arousal” itself (e.g., Neiss, 1988). Modern research on experimental aesthetics still takes inspiration from Berlyne’s ideas about how collative variables affect arousal, interest, and preference. The influence of the Berlyne tradition may be best seen in

172 citations

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TL;DR: The hypothesis that occipital potentials following relevant and irrelevant stimuli reflect not only differential processing ofrelevant and irrelevant information but also reflect a progressive change in the unit or specificity of the differential processing is supported.

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TL;DR: Human newborns tested with an operant choice procedure to determine whether they would prefer their fathers' voices to that of another male, revealed that they could discriminate between the voices but that the voices lacked reinforcing value, supporting a hypothesis that prenatal experience significantly influences human newborns' earliest voice preferences.
Abstract: Human newborns were tested with an operant choice procedure to determine whether they would prefer their fathers' voices to that of another male. No preference was observed. Subsequent testing revealed that they could discriminate between the voices but that the voices lacked reinforcing value. These results contrast sharply with newborns' perception of their mothers' voices, in particular, and female voices, in general. The data were interpreted as supporting an hypothesis that prenatal experience significantly influences human newborns' earliest voice preferences.

172 citations

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TL;DR: Most major psychiatric disorders are associated with increased risk for suicide attempts, but the strength of the relationships between these disorders and attempts changes over the course of development.
Abstract: The purpose of this prospective, naturalistic study was to examine the relationships between suicide attempts and contemporaneous psychiatric disorders, and developmental changes in these relationships from adolescence to young adulthood. The sample consisted of 180 adolescents, 12-19 years of age at hospitalization, repeatedly assessed for up to 13 years (n = 1,825 assessments). Semistructured psychiatric diagnostic instruments were administered at repeated assessments to assess psychiatric disorders and suicide attempts. After controlling for demographic variables and prehospitalization suicide attempts, most contemporaneous psychiatric disorders (major depressive disorder [MDD], dysthymic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder [GAD], panic disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [AD/HD], conduct disorder, and substance use disorder [SUD]) were related to increased risk of attempts. The relationship between suicide attempts and MDD, GAD, AD/HD, and SUD strengthened as participants got older. MDD, dysthymic disorder, GAD, and panic disorder were more commonly associated with repeat than 1st-time suicide attempts. In sum, most major psychiatric disorders are associated with increased risk for suicide attempts, but the strength of the relationships between these disorders and attempts changes over the course of development.

172 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Douglas E. Soltis12761267161
John C. Wingfield12250952291
Laurence Steinberg11540370047
Patrick Y. Wen10983852845
Mark T. Greenberg10752949878
Steven C. Hayes10645051556
Edward McAuley10545145948
Roberto Cabeza9425236726
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan9029926112
Barry J. Zimmerman8817756011
Michael K. Reiter8438030267
Steven R. Feldman83122737609
Charles E. Schroeder8223426466
Dale H. Schunk8116245909
Kim D. Janda7973126602
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202332
2022143
2021977
2020851
2019760
2018717