Creative cognition: a collaborative research agenda
Creative cognition research has flourished in recent decades, revealing how extraordinary creative outcomes emerge from ordinary cognitive processes. However, the field faces fragmentation that hinders consensus and integration. This research agenda, developed through a collaborative workshop of 50 European researchers at the Lorentz Centre, identifies four critical challenges for advancing creative cognition research. Challenge 1 addresses theoretical concerns around defining core research terms like divergent thinking, emotions, and metacognition. Challenge 2 focuses on identifying different types and domains of knowledge that influence creative performance. Challenge 3 emphasizes measuring dynamic interactions between cognitive, affective, and metacognitive processes over time. Challenge 4 calls for incorporating environmental and interpersonal contexts, including collaboration, technology, and embodied cognition. These challenges highlight the need for collaborative approaches to develop standardized measures, synthesize existing findings, and foster methodological innovations. By working together as a research community, we can build more comprehensive theories and effective methods for understanding creativity's cognitive foundations while embracing rather than reducing its inherent complexity
Authors
- Amory H. Danek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2849-8774)
- Marta Czerwonka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8247-3749)
- S. Ceh
- Selina Weiss (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8796-2154)
- Matthijs Baas
- Wendy Middlemiss Ross
- Jan Rummel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0443-1743)
- Linden J. Ball (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5099-0124)
- Артур Аммалайнен (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6734-9184)
- Margaret Mangion (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3531-1709)
- Marek Urban (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2772-1388)
- Rakefet Ackerman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-8014)
- Radwa Khalil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2632-8306)
- Michael Öllinger
- Thomas C. Ormerod (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9180-1326)
- Izabela Lebuda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4715-1928)
- Janet Frances Rafner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9264-3334)
- Baptiste Barbot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5096-2596)
- Sergio Agnoli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-7988)
- Laura Caravona (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3864-0439)
- Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6898-4515)
- Carola Salvi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9312-7649)
- Kirill G. Miroshnik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9855-1123)
- Kadi Tulver (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6263-4098)
- Honghong Bai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0445-1496)
- Kamila Urban (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4547-9804)
- Jakub Jędrusiak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6481-8210)
- Lorenzo Campidelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9391-6803)
- Cecilia Segatta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9667-7950)
- Caroline Di Bernardi Luft
- Paulina Nawrocka
- Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
- Bernard Nijstad
- Moritz Reis
- Christian Rominger
- Laura Macchi
- Mathias Benedek
- Claire Stevenson
- Yoed N. Kenett
- Yuval Hart
Publication Details
- Journal
- London Met Repository (London Metropolitan University)
- Published
- 2025-11-13
- Primary Topic
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00