Interesting read: Your Creativity Might Be Stifled by Your Expertise

We’ve known already for quite some time that there is hardly evidence for a correlation between expertise and great teaching. This article on Inc.com shows that expertise can also have a possible bad consequence: Using applications for medical research grants, Kevin Boudreau and his colleagues found that evaluators gave their lowest ratings to the submissions with… Read More Interesting read: Your Creativity Might Be Stifled by Your Expertise

October 29, 2014 Pedro1 Comment

Are you dishonest? Or maybe you are just being creative? (research)

When one of my kids has lied (and it’s discovered) he always smiles and says it was just a joke. He didn’t want to lie, of course not. Maybe he can say from now on that he was just trying to be creative. New research published in Psychological Science shows that lying about performance on one task may… Read More Are you dishonest? Or maybe you are just being creative? (research)