Key points
- Creativity often measured by divergent thinking (e.g. how many different uses for a brick can you think of)
- Linked to the psychological trait ‘openness’
- Test reveals creative people may see things differently (even at a visual level) – less ‘rivalry suppression’ of visual inputs (can accept and see both things)
- Personality is malleable: people with low divergent thinking can change
- travel truly does ‘broaden the mind’
- psilocybin (1 standard deviation great trait opennes)
- cognitive training interventions)