Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
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- 154 Publications
- 3,126 Citations
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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 co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Crisis Creativity, and Innovation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), edited Creators: What Makes Individuals Creative (Springer Nature), and she authored The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas into Action (PublicAffairs, 2025).
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.
Last Updated on October 08, 2025.
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Attitude; Education; Emotions; Human Development; Motivation; Personality; Psychological Phenomena; Psychological Theory; Psychology, Applied; Psychology, Social; Resilience, Psychological; Social Sciences
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0000-0002-0321-2071- View Lab Website
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154Publications
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2025
School climate and students’ attitudes toward creativity
Hoffmann J, Ivcevic Z, Gualda R. School climate and students’ attitudes toward creativity. Thinking Skills And Creativity 2025, 58: 101880. DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2025.101880.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsMeasuring Spanish students’ perception of teachers’ emotionally intelligent behavior: Relationships to academic and individual outcomes
Extremera N, Pulido-Martos M, Mérida-López S, Rey L, Ivcevic Z. Measuring Spanish students’ perception of teachers’ emotionally intelligent behavior: Relationships to academic and individual outcomes. Revista De Psicodidáctica (English Ed ) 2025, 30: 500167. DOI: 10.1016/j.psicoe.2025.500167.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSelf-report measuresNegative emotional statesSomatic symptomsStudy 2Quality of teacher-student relationshipsMeasure of academic engagementEvidence of adequate internal consistencyLife satisfactionEmotional statesAdequate internal consistencyOne-factor solutionSecondary studentsSatisfaction with lifeTeacher-student relationshipEmotionally intelligent behaviorDepressive symptomatologyPositive affectBehavior ScaleStudy 1Academic engagementPsychometric propertiesRelevant constructsSecondary school studentsAcademic outcomesCross-sectional designMidiendo la percepción de estudiantes españoles del comportamiento emocionalmente inteligente de sus docentes: relaciones con resultados académicos y personales
Extremera N, Pulido-Martos M, Mérida-López S, Rey L, Ivcevic Z. Midiendo la percepción de estudiantes españoles del comportamiento emocionalmente inteligente de sus docentes: relaciones con resultados académicos y personales. Revista De Psicodidáctica 2025, 30: 500167. DOI: 10.1016/j.psicod.2025.500167.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDataset for Measuring Spanish students’ perception of teachers’ emotionally intelligent behavior: Relationships to academic and individual outcomes.
Extremera-Pacheco N, Pulido-Martos M, Mérida-López S, Rey-Peña L, Ivcevic Z. Dataset for Measuring Spanish students’ perception of teachers’ emotionally intelligent behavior: Relationships to academic and individual outcomes. Datasets 2025 DOI: 10.24310/riuma.39234.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEmotionally Intelligent Behavior in Organizations: When Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity Meet
Levitats Z, Ivcevic Z, Brackett M. Emotionally Intelligent Behavior in Organizations: When Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity Meet. Emotion Review 2025, 17: 168-182. DOI: 10.1177/17540739251333990.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsEmotionally intelligent behaviorInfluence of organizational cultureEmotional intelligenceLeadership processesOrganizational cultureInteraction of emotional intelligenceTeam climateMultilevel perspectiveEmotional self-efficacyExpectations of successRegulate emotionsEI abilitiesContextual influencesIntelligent behaviorMotivationSelf-EfficacyEmotionsOpportunitiesLeadershipOrganizationAbilityBehaviorBuilding Opportunities for Emotionally Intelligent Behavior in Organizations
Ivcevic Z, Levitats Z, Brackett M. Building Opportunities for Emotionally Intelligent Behavior in Organizations. Consulting Psychology Journal Practice And Research 2025 DOI: 10.1037/cpb0000297.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsEmotionally intelligent behaviorOrganizational factorsGroup of organizational factorsEmotional intelligenceSelf-perceptions of abilityWork-related outcomesWork well-beingIntersection of emotionTheory of emotional intelligenceOrganizational cultureOrganizational psychologistsEI climateInterpersonal effectsOrganizational opportunitiesDistal outcomesSelf-PerceptionProximal outcomesIntelligent behaviorIndividual's abilityIndividual variabilityWell-beingEmotionsOpportunitiesIndividual potentialPsychologists
2024
Children’s Creative Storytelling Processes: A Cross-Cultural Study in the United States and Spain
Hoffmann J, Ivcevic Z, Lin S. Children’s Creative Storytelling Processes: A Cross-Cultural Study in the United States and Spain. Creativity Theories – Research – Applications 2024, 11: 71-85. DOI: 10.2478/ctra-2024-0011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsConceptsCross-cultural studiesNational identityCreative storytellingAbstract CreativityWestern cultureCross-culturallyCultural valuesWestern European nationsRatings of creativityEuropean nationsStorytellingCreativityOverall cultureUnited StatesCreative behaviorCultureQuestion—whatSpainIdentityMean scoreChildrenEmotionsMeanNoveltySocialCrises, Creativity, and Innovation
Ivcevic, Z., Reiter-Palmon, R., Tang, M., & Grohman, M. G. (Eds.). 2024. Crises, creativity, and innovation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61782-9BooksHow 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_1ChaptersCreativity 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_14Chapters
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08/01/2022 - PresentJournal ServiceAssociate Editoractivity How people feel and when: Examining the co-occurrences of emotions and context
08/08/2024 - 08/11/2024Poster PresentationAnnual Convention of the American Psychological AssociationDetailsSeattle, WA, United StatesCollaboratorsactivity Negative affect and creativity: The role of creative process engagement and attentional deployment
08/07/2024 - 08/08/2024Oral PresentationInternational Conference on Emotions and Organizational LifeDetailsChicago, IL, United StatesCollaboratorsactivity Self-regulation of creativity: Transforming ideas into products
05/08/2024 - 05/08/2024AddressOffice for Faculty Excellence Faculty Showcase Program, Montclair State UniversityDetailsMontclair, NJ, United Statesactivity 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.
04/11/2024 - 04/14/2024Oral PresentationAnnual Meeting of the American Educational Research AssociationDetailsPhiladelphia, PA, United States
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01/01/2023National AwardAmerican Psycohlogical Association, Division 10: Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the ArtsDetailsUnited Stateshonor Berlyne Award for Outstanding Early Career Achievement in psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts
08/05/2014National AwardAmerican Psychological Association, Division 10DetailsUnited Stateshonor Award for Excellence in Research
08/31/2007National AwardMensa Education and Research FoundationDetailsUnited States
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- October 16, 2025Source: Do Good to Lead Well Podcast
From Ideas to Action: Choosing Creativity with Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
- October 13, 2025Source: For the Love of Creatives Podcast
The Science Behind Why Everyone Can Create and Thrive With Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
- October 10, 2025Source: Smart People Podcast
Why you're not as creative as you think and how to actually change that with Zorana Pringle
- October 10, 2025Source: The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast
Research-Based Practices to Ignite Creativity, with Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle
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