{"id":661,"date":"2026-05-25T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/?p=661"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:59:54","slug":"new-paper-on-childrens-creativity-and-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/2026\/05\/25\/new-paper-on-childrens-creativity-and-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper on children&#8217;s creativity and curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0001691826009418\">paper<\/a>, we examined primary school children&#8217;s self-perceived creative pursuits in daily activities and looked at the relationship between children&#8217;s self-reported creativity and curiosity. We found that children&#8217;s responses fitted nine domains where creativity can be exercised, most frequently craft, DIY, and visual art. Domain-specific differences were present between \u201chigh\u201d and \u201clow\u201d creative children and between boys and girls. Children&#8217;s self-reported creativity and curiosity were highly positively correlated. There were no pronounced gender differences except in creative pursuits&#8217; domains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this new paper, we examined primary school children&#8217;s self-perceived creative pursuits in daily activities and looked at the relationship between children&#8217;s self-reported creativity and curiosity. We found that children&#8217;s responses fitted nine domains where creativity can be exercised, most frequently craft, DIY, and visual art. Domain-specific differences were present between \u201chigh\u201d and \u201clow\u201d creative&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/2026\/05\/25\/new-paper-on-childrens-creativity-and-curiosity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New paper on children&#8217;s creativity and curiosity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}