{"id":1863,"date":"2013-09-14T14:21:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2013-09-14T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T18:21:30","slug":"messy-desks-and-the-creative-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"Messy Desks and the Creative Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/blogs\/news-blog\/messy-desk-sign-creative-mind-65125\/\">A new study demonstrating clutter is next to god-like creative breakthroughs:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDisorderly environments seem to inspire breaking free of tradition, which can produce fresh insights,\u201d a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota\u2019s Kathleen Vohs writes in the journal Psychological Science. \u201cOrderly environments, in contrast, encourage convention and playing it safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vohs and her colleagues describe three experiments that provide evidence that a room\u2019s orderliness (or lack thereof) can influence people\u2019s mindset and behavior. One featured 48 American university students, who were instructed to come up with up to 10 unconventional uses for ping-pong balls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study demonstrating clutter is next to god-like creative breakthroughs: \u201cDisorderly environments seem to inspire breaking free of tradition, which can produce fresh insights,\u201d a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota\u2019s Kathleen Vohs writes in the journal Psychological Science. \u201cOrderly environments, in contrast, encourage convention and playing it safe.\u201d Vohs and her colleagues describe three experiments &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}