Can you think of three words that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four, five, or even ten? According to researchers, this simple exercise of naming unrelated words and then ...

Creativity is a uniquely human quality that’s difficult to define and, perhaps, even harder to objectively measure. Of course, that doesn’t mean that scientists haven’t tried, and a study published in ...

Let's play a quick game: as fast as you can, what action comes to mind when you look at the picture that heads this article? When you saw this chair, did you think “sit”? A Yale University study shows ...

Creativity has long been considered tough to quantify. But an international cohort of researchers from McGill University, Harvard University, and the University of Melbourne are tackling that ...

Are you creative? This question is difficult to answer objectively, but now researchers say that asking people to name random words and assessing how different they are could be a new way to measure ...

For instance a word like “dodecahedron.” Picture its twelve faces, each one catching the light in a unique way. This geometric shape could inspire you to explore the interplay of light and shadow, ...

Ms. Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and led its global task force on A.I. and education. I am a big fan of technology. I’ve blissfully given ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leadership professor, job market journalist-analyst, business advisor. “What we need around here is more creativity.” Those eight ...