{"id":44,"date":"2015-07-01T02:41:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T02:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:52:50","slug":"creativity-research-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/creativity-research-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Research Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etown.edu\/scad\">Scholarship and Creative Arts Day<\/a>. Several students have done summer research with me through Elizabethtown&#8217;s Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts, and Research Program (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etown.edu\/offices\/research\/summer-scholarship.aspx\">SCARP<\/a>). Students&#8217; most successful projects have been accepted as poster presentations at national conferences, and some students have published their work in peer-reviewed journals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent graduates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melany Bedoya &#8217;26<\/p>\n<p>Percy Lachman &#8217;26<\/p>\n<p>Sara Colletti &#8217;25<\/p>\n<p>Delaney Peckham &#8217;25<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Ramler &#8217;25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Publications and Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pretz, J.E. (2026). Infusing creativity into a college course: A pilot study. <em>Frontiers in Psychology,\u00a0 17<\/em>, 1768412. doi: 10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1768412<\/p>\n<p>Pretz, J.E. (2026). Am I creative? Challenges to accurate assessment of creative self. In Z.I. Pringle (Ed.) <em>The Creative Self<\/em> (pp. 55-75). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-032-09225-0_4<\/p>\n<p>Pretz, J.E., &amp; Bedoya, M. (2026). How Do Academic Achievement and Creativity Predict Meaning in Life and Life Satisfaction? Talk presented at the annual meeting of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, Omaha, NE: March 12-14.<\/p>\n<p>Pretz, J.E., &amp; Kuczma, M. (2025). Are creative students more successful in college? In J. Katz-Buonincontro &amp; T. Kettler (Eds.) <em>The Oxford Handbook of Creativity and Education<\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Lachman, P., Colletti, S., Peckham, D., Ramler, R., &amp; Pretz, J. (2025). Creativity priming and ethical decision making. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC: May 22-25.<\/p>\n<p>Colletti, S., Hersh, J., Kunkle, C., Ramler, R., &amp; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/creativity-research-lab\/\"><span class=\"custom-more\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facultysites.etown.edu\/pretzj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}