Benjamin Goecke

I enjoyed writing this article with Mathias Benedek, where we imagine the future of creativity testing, building on PISA's 2022 Creative Thinking assessment. We're hoping to turn these ideas into reality in the coming year. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jo…

CHC cognitive theory update: Glr is now separate Gl and Gr broad abilities & upcoming change in WJ V Tests of Cognitive Ability—minimizing the jingle-jangle fallacy. ift.tt/eSDQf5y

Being Female and Being Well-Situated Implies Higher Performance on Creative Thinking Tests: Evidence Across 62 Countries from PISA 2022 osf.io/zydnk/

New work from our lab: generating new creativity tests using large language models: 1. AI "test generator" creates candidate test items 2. AI "test takers" solve them 3. AI "scorers" rate solutions for originality 4. Best items selected for creativity tests

I'll be recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025 at Penn State! Looking for applicants interested in creativity, cognitive neuroscience, AI, psychometrics, learning/creativity in education. See below for application info and please share 🙂 psych.la.psu.edu/graduate/prosp…

New longitudinal study with @Simone_Luchini & @yoed_kenett finds that students who learn more effectively develop more interconnected semantic memory networks, with shorter paths between related concepts. This efficient knowledge structure may facilitate successful learning.

@iqmobile Thank you!

Excellent article on structure of #cognitive broad #Gr (#retrievalfluency) as per #CHC and underlying cognitive constructs of retrieval fluency. #Gc #Gwm #WMC #Gs #executivefunctions dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm000…

Study by @SelinaWeiss14 & @BenjaminGoecke found the ability to generate lots of ideas (fluency) has little relation to generating original ideas, controlling for intelligence. This raises questions about the validity of fluency in creativity assessment. doi.org/10.1002/jocb.6…

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… “the current results provide additional evidence for a general retrieval ability that likely cuts across a number of different fluency tasks…and adds to our understanding of general retrieval ability within the broader #CHC model”

Danke sehr! :-)

@AndrewRAConway Thank you, Andrew! 🙏

🏆 We are glad to announce that the winner of the 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award is @BenjaminGoecke from @uni_tue. He received his PhD at @uni_ulm and the supervisor was Oliver Wilhelm. Congratulations! mdpi.com/journal/jintel…

Stark gesunkene Leistungen in den Bereichen #Lesen, #Mathematik und #Naturwissenschaften prägen den nationalen #PISA-Bericht und deuten, so Prof. Dr. Olaf Köller, auf bereits längerfristig anhaltende Probleme im deutschen #Bildungssystem hin. Mehr Infos 👉 leibniz-ipn.de/de/das-ipn/akt…

Visual creativity is key to human expression, but assessing it requires substantial human effort. We introduce AuDrA, an AI system trained to evaluate visual creativity like a human. Paper: doi.org/10.3758/s13428… Model: osf.io/kqn9v/ Drawings: osf.io/h4adm/

Due to popular demand the deadline for abstract submissions to #ecp21 in Berlin (August 6-9, 2024) will be extended until December 10th, 2023, 23:59 CET. Looking forward to see you in Berlin!

‼️🚨📢Job Alert‼️ Interested in better understanding talent development in children? 💡 Last chance to apply for this excellent opportunity to join our research team as a Postdoc (bitly.ws/XUMq) or for doing a PhD (bitly.ws/XUMN). @HKA_science

Save the date! Div 10 is delighted to announce our 1st annual conference on the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts, in Denton TX on March 14-16, 2024. Stay tuned for a Call for Papers and more details! div10.org/save-the-date-…