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Jonah Lehrer: Creative Insights. The story of the rainmaker. TEDxKnoxville - Deirdre Barrett - Dreams and Creative Problem Solving. Deirdre Barrett. Deirdre Barrett in 2006 Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D. is an author and psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School.[1] She is known for her research on dreams, hypnosis and imagery and has written on evolutionary psychology. Barrett is a Past President of The International Association for the Study of Dreams and of the American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, The Society for Psychological Hypnosis. She has written four books for the general public: The Pregnant Man and Other Tales From a Hypnotherapist’s Couch (1998), The Committee of Sleep (2001), Waistland (2007), and Supernormal Stimuli (2010). She is the editor of four academic books: Trauma and Dreams (1996), The New Science of Dreaming (2007), "Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy" (2010), and "The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams. " (2012). Research[edit] Barrett’s studies of hypnosis have focused on different types of high hypnotizables, finding two subgroups which she terms fantasizers and dissociaters.

Selected Publications[edit] Deirdre Barrett - The "Committee of Sleep" : A Study of Dream Incubation for Probelm Solving - Dreaming Articles Online from the journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams. Dreaming, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1993 The “Committee of Sleep”: A Study of DreamIncubation for Problem Solving Deirdre Barrett[1] Subjects incubated dreams addressing problems chosen by the dreamer nightly for one week. Approximately half recalled a dream which they judged to be related to their problem; a majority of these believed their dream contained a solution. KEY WORDS: dreaming; problem solving; creativity; dream incubation.

The French Surrealist poet, St. None of these quotes designate the dream as spokesperson for the committee of sleep. Inventions as varied as Elias Howe's sewing machine needle—with the hole Dream psychologists and historians take a variety of stances toward such anecdotes. Others not only believe such problem solving occurs spontaneously, but also advocate cultivating it by dream incubation..

Several research studies have examined different aspects of problem solving and dreams. Two raters then judged all dreams in the week's journals on criteria A and B above. Relaxation & Creativity: The Science of Sleeping on It | Moments of Genius. By Sam McNerney Sigmund Freud postulated that dreaming is a reflection of the unleashed id; it represents one’s deep sexual fantasies and frustrations implanted during childhood. But what happens when we fall asleep is usually much less dramatic; we dream about the problems of everyday life.

Now scientists understand dreaming as an integral part of the creative process – it’s not just about the problems of everyday life, it’s about solving them. In 2004, the neuroscientists Ullrich Wagner and Jan Born published a paper in Nature that examined the relationship between sleep and problem solving. In one experiment, they tasked participants with transforming a long list of number strings. The task required participants to apply a set of algorithms that would scare off most save a handful of math geeks. They found that only 20 percent of the participants were sharp enough to spot the shortcut even though most wrestled the task for several hours. There is a time and place for caffeine. Mindset (book) Carol S. Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University.[1] She graduated from Barnard College in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1972.

She taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford faculty in 2004. Contributions[edit] Professor Dweck has primary research interests in motivation,[2][3][4][5][6][7] personality, and development. She teaches courses in Personality and Social Development as well as Motivation. "In a fixed mindset students believe their basic abilities, their intelligence, their talents, are just fixed traits.

This is important because (1) individuals with a "growth" theory are more likely to continue working hard despite setbacks and (2) individuals' theories of intelligence can be affected by subtle environmental cues. Selected publications[edit] Dweck, C. Sources[edit] See also[edit] Goal orientation References[edit] The Chocolate-and-Radish Experiment That Birthed the Modern Conception of Willpower - Hans Villarica - Health. Psychologist Roy Baumeister reflects on his groundbreaking 1998 research on self-control and shares how it became the dominant theory despite its unpopular Freudian roots. A strong man from the late 19th century. Library of Congress Back in 1996, Roy Baumeister conducted an experiment that was downright evil. Together with his former Case Western Reserve University colleagues Ellen Bratslavsky, Mark Muraven, and Dianne Tice, he examined the effect of a tempting food challenge designed to deplete participants' willpower through the awful power of an unfulfilled promise of chocolate!

In the first part of the trial, Baumeister kept the 67 study participants in a room that smelled of freshly baked chocolate cookies and then teased them further by showing them the actual treats alongside other chocolate-flavored confections. While some did get to indulge their sweet tooth, the subjects in the experimental condition, whose resolves were being tested, were asked to eat radishes instead. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (9781400064281): Chip Heath, Dan Heath. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (9780385528757): Chip Heath, Dan Heath.