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Overview

Paul J. Silvia is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology, with a strong focus on creativity, cognition, and personality. The primary fields of study include Psychology and Neuroscience, with significant contributions to subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics of Paul J. Silvia's work cover a range of subjects including:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Humor Studies and Applications
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

  • Katherine N. Cotter
  • Rebekah Rodriguez-Boerwinkle
  • Alexander P. Christensen
  • Thomas R. Kwapil
  • Kelly L. Harper

Common venues for publishing research encompass:

  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Creativity Research Journal
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Empirical Studies of the Arts

Recent publications by Paul J. Silvia include:

  • Looking up at the curious personality: individual differences in curiosity and openness to experience, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • A Psychometric Network Perspective on the Validity and Validation of Personality Trait Questionnaires, 2020, European Journal of Personality (authored by Alexander P. Christensen but included for context)
  • Intelligence and creativity share a common cognitive and neural basis, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General (authored by Emily Frith but included for contextual relevance)
  • Creativity myths: Prevalence and correlates of misconceptions on creativity, 2021, Personality and Individual Differences (authored by Mathias Benedek but contextual)
  • Keeping Creativity under Control: Contributions of Attention Control and Fluid Intelligence to Divergent Thinking, 2021, Creativity Research Journal (authored by Emily Frith but relevant to the field)

In addition to journal articles, Paul J. Silvia has published a book titled Researching daily life: A guide to experience sampling and daily diary methods. This book was published in 2021 by the American Psychological Association and has accumulated citations evidencing its use in the field.

Best Publications

  • For whom the mind wanders, and when: an experience-sampling study of working memory and executive control in daily life.

    Michael J. Kane;Leslie H. Brown;Jennifer C. McVay;Paul J. Silvia

  • Exploring the Psychology of Interest

    Paul J. Silvia

  • Assessing Creativity With Divergent Thinking Tasks: Exploring the Reliability and Validity of New Subjective Scoring Methods

    Paul J. Silvia;Beate P. Winterstein;John T. Willse;Christopher M. Barona

  • Interest—The Curious Emotion

    Paul J. Silvia

  • Creative Cognition and Brain Network Dynamics

    Roger E. Beaty;Mathias Benedek;Paul J. Silvia;Daniel L. Schacter

  • What is interesting? Exploring the appraisal structure of interest.

    Paul J. Silvia

  • The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II: Development, factor structure, and psychometrics.

    Todd B. Kashdan;Matthew W. Gallagher;Paul J. Silvia;Beate P. Winterstein

  • Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity

    Roger E. Beaty;Yoed N. Kenett;Alexander P. Christensen;Monica D. Rosenberg

  • Default and Executive Network Coupling Supports Creative Idea Production

    Roger E. Beaty;Mathias Benedek;Scott Barry Kaufman;Paul J. Silvia

  • Objective Self-Awareness Theory: Recent Progress and Enduring Problems

    Paul J. Silvia;T. Shelley Duval

  • Emotional responses to art: From collation and arousal to cognition and emotion.

    Paul J. Silvia

  • How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

    Paul J. Silvia

  • Creativity and the default network: A functional connectivity analysis of the creative brain at rest.

    Roger E. Beaty;Mathias Benedek;Robin W. Wilkins;Emanuel Jauk

  • Openness to experience, plasticity, and creativity: Exploring lower-order, high-order, and interactive effects ☆

    Paul J. Silvia;Emily C. Nusbaum;Christopher Berg;Christopher Martin

  • The Dimensional Structure of the Wisconsin Schizotypy Scales: Factor Identification and Construct Validity

    Thomas Richard Kwapil;Neus Barrantes-Vidal;Paul J. Silvia

  • The roles of associative and executive processes in creative cognition

    Roger E. Beaty;Paul J. Silvia;Emily C. Nusbaum;Emanuel Jauk

  • Curiosity and Interest: The Benefits of Thriving on Novelty and Challenge

    Todd B. Kashdan;Paul J. Silvia

  • Assessing creativity with self-report scales: A review and empirical evaluation.

    Paul J. Silvia;Benjamin Wigert;Roni Reiter-Palmon;James C. Kaufman

  • Self-awareness, probability of improvement, and the self-serving bias.

    Thomas Shelley Duval;Paul J. Silvia

  • Looking past pleasure: Anger, confusion, disgust, pride, surprise, and other unusual aesthetic emotions.

    Paul J. Silvia

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas R. Kwapil
Thomas R. Kwapil University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roger E. Beaty
Roger E. Beaty Pennsylvania State University
Neus Barrantes-Vidal
Neus Barrantes-Vidal Autonomous University of Barcelona
Mathias Benedek
Mathias Benedek University of Graz
Nathan A. Kimbrel
Nathan A. Kimbrel Duke University
Michael J. Kane
Michael J. Kane University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jean C. Beckham
Jean C. Beckham Duke University
James C. Kaufman
James C. Kaufman University of Connecticut
Christina M. Rodriguez
Christina M. Rodriguez University of Alabama at Birmingham

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