Adults may be more creative than children – but less confident about it
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Adults are often thought to be less creative than children, as we swap painting for presentations and sandpits for spreadsheets. But in a new study, children actually performed worse on creativity tests than adults – yet made up for it in confidence.
“We found that adults are actually more creative thinkers,” says Mathias Benedek at the University of Graz in Austria. “But children enjoy creativity more and are much less
Adults are often thought to be less creative than children, as we swap painting for presentations and sandpits for spreadsheets. But in a new study, children actually performed worse on creativity tests than adults – yet made up for it in confidence.
“We found that adults are actually more creative thinkers,” says Mathias Benedek at the University of Graz in Austria. “But children enjoy creativity more and are much less
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