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Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

Senior Research Scientist

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Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

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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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Activities

  • Creativity and well-being: Emotions are the glue
    Buffalo, NY, United States 2023
    Creativity Expert Exchange
  • Building creativity: From ideas to actions
    Santander, CB, Spain 2022
    Centro Botin celebration
  • Educating for creativity: From thinking skills to self-regulation
    Shanghai, Shanghai, China 2022
    The Landscape, Challenges, and Future Directions for Research in Educational Psychology
  • Designing for Empathy summit
    Washington, DC, United States 2022
    Art seeking understanding: From creation to appreciation
  • Creativity realized: Self-regulation in the creative process of artists and scientists
    Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 2022
    Marconi Institute for Creativity conference
  • Emotionally intelligent behavior of supervisors affects employee creativity
    Chicago, IL, United States 2022
    Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
  • Self-regulation for creativity
    Minneapolis, MN, United States 2022
    Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
  • Adding context to the relationship between passion and creativity
    Seattle, WA, United States 2022
    Annual Conference for Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology
  • From having ideas to making them happen: Self-regulation in creativity
    New York, NY, United States 2022
    From having ideas to making them happen: Self-regulation in creativity
  • Using emotions to solve problems
    Cambridge, MA, United States 2020
    Designing for Empathy Workshop
  • The role of emotional intelligence in engagement and burnout of hospital staff
    Toronto, ON, Canada 2019
    TRUST: The Cornerstone of our Health Care System
  • What is empathy-building?
    Washington, DC, United States 2019
    Designing for Empathy Summit
  • From having ideas to making them happen: Self-regulation in creativity
    Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia 2019
    European Council for Higher Abilities Conference
  • Emotions inspire and fuel creativity
    Santander, CB, Spain 2019
    First International Conference on Creativity, Emotion, and the Arts
  • Where do we go next: Creativity and emotions
    Geneva, GE, Switzerland 2019
    European Collaborative for Creativity Conference
  • Emotion abilities and achievement
    Paris, IDF, France 2019
    International Convention of Psychological Science
  • Teaching emotion skills in an art center
    Dharamshala, HP, India 2018
    Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion Through Museums, A Summit with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
  • States of flow: Not beyond anxiety, but right at the heart of it?
    Aarhus, Denmark 2018
    International Conference on Motivation
  • Creativity and emotion: Beyond positive and negative emotion dichotomy
    San Francisco, CA, United States 2018
    Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
  • Teaching emotion and creativity skills through the arts
    Phoenix, AZ, United States 2018
    Annual Meeting and Museum Expo of the American Alliance of Museums
  • Mixed feelings about school: Examining jointly experienced positive and negative emotions with co-occurrence network analysis
    Tampere, Finland 2017
    Mixed feelings about school: Examining jointly experienced positive and negative emotions with co-occurrence network analysis.
  • Emotional ambivalence and creativity in the workplace
    Washington, DC, United States 2017
    Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
  • Emotions and creativity revised
    Porto, Porto District, Portugal 2017
    International Congress on Emotional Intelligence
  • Creative process: From ideas to products and everywhere in between
    Providence, RI, United States 2017
    Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development
  • Development of figural and verbal creativity in Spanish children
    Denver, CO, United States 2016
    Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
  • How do U.S. high school students feel at school?
    Chicago, IL, United States 2016
    Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science
  • How do high school students feel at school? Concerning lessons from a national survey
    Baltimore, MD, United States 2016
    Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence
  • Emotions and creativity: Where do we go from here?
    Toronto, ON, Canada 2015
    Emotions and creativity: Where do we go from here?
  • Achieving creativity: Emotions matter and the arts can help
    Madrid, MD, Spain 2014
    Achieving creativity: Emotions matter and the arts can help
  • Facebook and face-to-face: Behavior and person perception across social environments.
    Taipei, Taiwan 2008
    Creativity Development International Conference

Honors & Recognition

AwardAwarding OrganizationDate
FellowAmerican Psycohlogical Association, Division 10: Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts2023
Berlyne Award for Outstanding Early Career Achievement in psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the artsAmerican Psychological Association, Division 102014
Award for Excellence in ResearchMensa Education and Research Foundation2007

Professional Service

OrganizationRoleDate
Creativity Research JournalAssociate Editor2022 - Present
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the ArtsAssociate Editor2017 - 2022
International Journal of Creativity and Problem SolvingAssociate Editor2013 - 2018

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