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    Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

    Senior Research Scientist
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    zorana.ivcevic@yale.edu

    Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

    350 George St.

    New Haven, CT 06511

    United States

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    Biography

    Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence where she currently serves as the Director of the Creativity and Emotions Lab. Zorana studies the role of emotion and emotional intelligence in creativity and well-being, as well as how to use the arts (and art-related institutions) to promote emotion and creativity skills. She has previously served as Associate Editor of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts and International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving, and is currently Associate Editor at Creativity Research Journal. She has edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions and is co-editor of Crisis, Creativity, and Innovation. Zorana collaborated with colleagues from Denmark, Spain, China, France, Germany, Poland, and Croatia and published her research in journals such as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Creative Behavior and others. Her work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, ArtNet, US News, Education Week, Science Daily, El Pais, and others, and she is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and Creativity Post. Zorana received the Award for Excellence in Research from the Mensa Education and Research Foundation, the Berlyne Award for Outstanding Early Career Achievement from the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, and has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

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    Attitude; Education; Emotions; Human Development; Motivation; Personality; Psychological Phenomena; Psychological Theory; Psychology, Applied; Psychology, Social; Resilience, Psychological; Social Sciences

    Research at a Glance

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    A big-picture view of Zorana Ivcevic Pringle's research output by year.
    84Publications
    147Citations

    Publications

    2024

    • Crises, Creativity, and Innovation
      Ivcevic, Z., Reiter-Palmon, R., Tang, M., & Grohman, M. G. (Eds.). 2024. Crises, creativity, and innovation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61782-9
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    • How crises may relate to creativity and innovation: An introduction.
      Tang, M., Ivcevic, Z., Grohman, M. G., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2024). How crises may relate to creativity and innovation: An introduction. In Z. Ivcevic, R. Reiter-Palmon, M. Tang, & M. G. Grohman (Eds.), Crises, creativity, and innovation (pp. 1-7). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61782-9_1
      Chapters
    • Creativity and crisis: From possibilities to making them happen.
      Ivcevic, Z., & Pei, Y. (2024). Creativity and crisis: From possibilities to making them happen. In Z. Ivcevic, R. Reiter-Palmon, M. Tang, & M. G. Grohman (Eds.), Crises, creativity, and innovation (pp. 327-352). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61782-9_14
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    • Creativity and affect: A person-centered analysis
      Ivcevic, Z., Liu, X., Lin, S., & Brackett, M. A. (2024). Creativity and affect: A person-centered approach. Learning and Individual Differences. 113, 102481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102481
      Peer-Reviewed Original Research
    • Transformational creativity in education
      Ivcevic, Z., Anderson, R., & Hoffmann, J. D. (2024). Transformational creativity in education. In R. J. Sternberg & S. Karami (Eds.). Transformational creativity: Learning for a better future (pp. 149-168). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
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    • Artificial intelligence as a tool for creativity
      Ivcevic, Z., & Grandinetti, M. (2024). Artificial intelligence as a tool for creativity. Journal of Creativity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100079
      Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus Statements
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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      Creativity Research Journal

      Journal ServiceAssociate Editor
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      How people feel and when: Examining the co-occurrences of emotions and context

      Poster PresentationAnnual Convention of the American Psychological Association
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      Negative affect and creativity: The role of creative process engagement and attentional deployment

      Oral PresentationInternational Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life
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      Self-regulation of creativity: Transforming ideas into products

      AddressOffice for Faculty Excellence Faculty Showcase Program, Montclair State University
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      Connections between the sources of teachers’ creative self-efficacy and their well-being in school. In S. Braun (Chair), Developing Educators’ Social and Emotional Competencies to Advance Educational Possibilities.

      Oral PresentationAnnual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association
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    Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

    350 George St.

    New Haven, CT 06511

    United States