James C. Kaufman
@jamesckaufman.bsky.social
I study creativity. Professor of Educational Psychology at UConn. I like musical theatre, coming up with creativity theories, dogs, studying positive outcomes of creativity, baseball, developing creativity assessments, and my wife and two boys.
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It's new publication day at @universitypress.cambridge.org 🤩
We have got some very exciting new titles including 'Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies' by David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, and 'The Artist's Life' by Beth Leibson and @jamesckaufman.bsky.social📚
We have got some very exciting new titles including 'Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies' by David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, and 'The Artist's Life' by Beth Leibson and @jamesckaufman.bsky.social📚
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's new publication day at @universitypress.cambridge.org 🤩
We have got some very exciting new titles including 'Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies' by David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, and 'The Artist's Life' by Beth Leibson and @jamesckaufman.bsky.social📚
We have got some very exciting new titles including 'Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies' by David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, and 'The Artist's Life' by Beth Leibson and @jamesckaufman.bsky.social📚
Jeffrey Walczyk did some good work on creativity and lying, and did a chapter for the book Hansika Kapoor and I did on creativity and morality. I’m sorry to hear about his passing.
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Jeffrey Walczyk Obituary (2025) - Haughton, LA - Syracuse Post Standard
View Dr. Jeffrey J. Walczyk's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
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August 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Jeffrey Walczyk did some good work on creativity and lying, and did a chapter for the book Hansika Kapoor and I did on creativity and morality. I’m sorry to hear about his passing.
obits.syracuse.com/us/obituarie...
obits.syracuse.com/us/obituarie...
Margaret Boden influence on creativity — and many other fields — was profound. She was one of the first to write and think about AI, computers, and creativity. Only met her once, at a small conference, but she was lovely. A loss to many fields.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Margaret Boden obituary
Cognitive scientist who explored how consciousness arises from biochemical interactions within the brain
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Margaret Boden influence on creativity — and many other fields — was profound. She was one of the first to write and think about AI, computers, and creativity. Only met her once, at a small conference, but she was lovely. A loss to many fields.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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We spy some familiar faces to the SfNC community in this week's New York Times Creativity Challenge! Check out these short daily creativity exercises to flex those divergent thinking muscles @jamesckaufman.bsky.social @z-i-pringle.bsky.social @roger-beaty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Welcome to the 5-Day Creativity Challenge
Today, a fun way to feel less stuck.
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June 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We spy some familiar faces to the SfNC community in this week's New York Times Creativity Challenge! Check out these short daily creativity exercises to flex those divergent thinking muscles @jamesckaufman.bsky.social @z-i-pringle.bsky.social @roger-beaty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Featured research by @jamesckaufman.bsky.social, Jonathan Schooler, @roger-beaty.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Featured research by @jamesckaufman.bsky.social, Jonathan Schooler, @roger-beaty.bsky.social
Got to meet him once years and years ago — brilliant man, pioneering and important work on metacognition
John Flavell, a giant of developmental psychology, who introduced the study of metacognition, died peacefully at age 96. www.amacad.org/person/john-...
John Hurley Flavell
John H. Flavell is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Flavell is a founder of social cognitive ...
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May 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Got to meet him once years and years ago — brilliant man, pioneering and important work on metacognition
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Plugging some research from myself and @jamesckaufman.bsky.social, now officially out in JCB. To peer under the hood of the creative process, we analyzed think aloud data that 266 undergraduate students produced during an open-ended drawing task.
doi.org/10.1002/jocb...
doi.org/10.1002/jocb...
Creative Subprocess Frequencies and Their Relation to Personal Characteristics and Product Creativity: Insights from a Drawing Task Think Aloud Study
Most research on the creative process has focused on idea generation, and the prevalence and influence of many other creative subprocesses remain poorly understood. To clarify different subprocesses'...
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March 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Plugging some research from myself and @jamesckaufman.bsky.social, now officially out in JCB. To peer under the hood of the creative process, we analyzed think aloud data that 266 undergraduate students produced during an open-ended drawing task.
doi.org/10.1002/jocb...
doi.org/10.1002/jocb...
This new pub (a rare solo one) is near and dear to me — it’s on #creativity and #meaning and #legacy. Reviewers (correctly) made me emphasize more hopeful possibilities. Title comes from my favorite play ever. Free to read for now!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dancing on an empty shore: Symbolic immortality, meaning, and being creative as doomsday approaches
Why do we create? Most studies of creativity and motivation use the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Yet seeking meaning, often…
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January 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This new pub (a rare solo one) is near and dear to me — it’s on #creativity and #meaning and #legacy. Reviewers (correctly) made me emphasize more hopeful possibilities. Title comes from my favorite play ever. Free to read for now!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This was a fun podcast to do! And this is my first post on BlueSky…!
New episode of the Night Science Podcast! James Kaufman talks about how you can practice to become more creative.
Spoiler alert: it's all about being open to new experiences.
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Spoiler alert: it's all about being open to new experiences.
open.spotify.com/episode/0yFI...
November 14, 2024 at 2:35 PM
This was a fun podcast to do! And this is my first post on BlueSky…!