People are motivated to perceive themselves as having control over their lives.
Consequently, they respond to events and cognitions that reduce control with compensatory …

This article provides an update on the blind-variation and selective-retention theory of
creativity (BVSR), beginning with an overview of its historical development. That brief …

Visual connection to nature has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on attention
restoration, stress reduction, and overall health and well-being. Inside buildings, windows …

Marketers frequently style food to look pretty (eg, in advertising). This article investigates
how pretty aesthetics (defined by classical aesthetic principles, such as order, symmetry …

Air pollution is a serious problem that affects billions of people globally. Although the
environmental and health costs of air pollution are well known, the present research …

This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to
understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom …

Traditional American schooling is in constant crisis because it is based on two poor models
for children's learning: the school as a factory and the child as a blank slate. School reforms …

Augmented reality (AR) enables consumers to project product holograms into their
surrounding real‐world context in real time using their mobile devices. Although AR may …

A state of mindfulness is characterized by focused, nonjudgmental awareness of the present
moment. The current research experimentally investigated how state mindfulness influences …

Modern ideas of embodiment have been influential in cognitive science for the past several
decades, yet there is minimal evidence of embodied cognition approaches in creativity …