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Zorana Ivcevic Pringle

Senior Research Scientist

Appointments

Biography

Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Creativity and Emotions lab at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, received her doctorate from the University of New Hampshire, and did postdoctoral work at the Interpersonal Communication and Interaction laboratory at Tufts University. Dr. Ivcevic’s research interests center around the role of emotion and emotions and self-regulation in creativity across domains, as well as self-expression in different contexts of everyday life. She collaborated with colleagues from China, Denmark, Spain, China, 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. She is Associate Editor of Creativity Research Journal, and served as Associate Editor of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, and the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving. Dr. Ivcevic received the Award for Excellence in Research from the Mensa Education and Research Foundation for her research on emotional intelligence an emotional creativity, as well as the Berlyne Award for Outstanding Early Career Achievement in psychology of aesthetics, creativity and the arts. She has been elected Fellow of the Division 10 of the Division 10 of the American Psychological Association.

Activities

  • 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

Departments & Organizations