Creativity Research Lab

Undergraduates are involved in almost all of my research projects. Students are trained in rating creativity, read and discuss current literature in the field, participate in data analysis, discuss and interpret new findings, and help design new studies. Advanced students conduct their own research projects and present their findings at Scholarship and Creative Arts Day. Several students have done summer research with me through Elizabethtown’s Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts, and Research Program (SCARP). Students’ most successful projects have been accepted as poster presentations at national conferences, and some students have published their work in peer-reviewed journals.

Current Lab Members

Sara Colletti, ’25

Justin Hersh, ’24

Cierra Kunkle, ’24

Ryan Ramler, ’25

Recent Publications and Presentations

Pretz, J.E., & Kuczma, M. (in press). Are creative students more successful in college? In J. Katz-Buonincontro & T. Kettler (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Creativity and Education. Oxford University Press.

Pretz, J.E., Grohman, M., & Morgan, W. (2024). How to Teach Creativity Creatively. Workshop presented at the annual meeting of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, Denton, TX: March 14-16.

Colletti, S., Hersh, J., Kunkle, C., Ramler, R., & Pretz, J. (2024). The relationship between creativity and moral foundations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, Denton, TX: March 14-16.

Pretz, J.E. (2023, April). Is Creativity Related to Success in College? Invited talk presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.

Dennin, A., Furman, K., Pretz, J.E., & Roy, M.M. (2022). Relationship of different intuition types to thought styles, beliefs, and cognitions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1-18. doi: 10.1002/bdm.2283