Is it Time for a Personal Growth Mindset?
Our focus on competition, grades, and standardized test performance is actively robbing children of the opportunity for the sort of personal growth that really matters.
Beautiful Minds
Insights into intelligence, creativity, personality, and well-being
Do College Admissions Criteria Capture Creativity?
New research suggests that we may be actively penalizing our most creative students.
Why Do Narcissists Lose Popularity Over Time?
New research shows why narcissists become less popular over time.
Creative People Are...
Mindful daydreamers, imaginatively gritty, passionately introverted, openly sensitive, playfully serious, logically intuitive and more.
The Difference between ExtrAversion and ExtrOversion
What's the correct spelling: ExtrAversion or ExtrOversion?
Confessions of a Neurotic Extravert
Do you often act first and then worry immediately about the consequences of your actions? Do you say whatever enters your mind but then immediately regret what you’ve just said?...
An Important but Rarely Discussed Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Power corrupts, but power doesn't corrupt everyone equally
Which Character Strengths Are Most Predictive of Well-Being?
If you seek high well-being, your best bets are gratitude and love of learning.
Imagination Institute Awards Nearly $3 Million to Advance the Science of Imagination
We spend so much time on standardized testing and measuring learning ability that we don’t track how much we’re developing the key competencies that enable us to imagine what could be...
Mentors Matter: In Loving Memory of Nicholas J. Mackintosh (1935-2015)
Today would have been my mentor's 80th birthday. Happy Birthday Nick and thanks for showing me that mentors really do matter.
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