How to improve creative thinking?

from this article,

Teaching Creative Science Thinking

Robert L. DeHaan, Science, 2011


Q. How to improve creative thinking?


A. Improve associative thinking and increase peer-peer interaction.



Creative thinking defined within two different theoretical frameworks,

from individual insight and/or social phenomenon.


In individual insight, there are two skills for thinking, associative thinking and analytcal thinking.

Associative thinking is more required for creative thinking,

because the ability can convey the solution from completely different fields (?)


In social phenomenon, peer-peer interaction is efficient for creative thinking.

For example, new hypothesis or idea occurred the most frequently, when lab meeting.


This short article is interesting for me,

because it described how to categorize and quantify "Creative", one of the most abstract word,

and how to improve them artificially.


I am not good at psychology, but this inspire me how to quantify abstract data.