Call for Papers: Special issue “When Creativity Happens and When It Doesn’t: What Can We Learn from Non-Significant Findings”
2025-12-01
The Editors of Studia Psychologica are currently seeking contributions to the following monothematic issue of Studia Psychologica:
When Creativity Happens and When It Doesn’t: What Can We Learn from Non-Significant Findings
We particularly welcome manuscripts that:
- Present empirical work—qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods—that includes both significant and non-significant results, especially when grounded in transparent research practices such as preregistration and open data
- Highlight boundary conditions, clarifying why specific variables (e.g., mood, autonomy, group dynamics, constraints) promote creativity in some circumstances but not others
- Compare different operationalizations of creativity, such as divergent thinking tasks, insight problems, creative self-beliefs, and real-world creative achievements
- Offer methodological or theoretical perspectives on how null or inconsistent findings can refine, qualify, or redirect existing creativity theories
- Demonstrate the value of negative evidence for understanding creativity in educational, organizational, or cultural contexts.
