Imagination, anxiety, and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zabelina, Darya L.; Clay, James M.; Upshaw, Joshua D.

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“…Many countries applied (and still apply) similar measures to limit the spread of the virus. These constraints imply a restriction of movement, the need to adapt working methods (remote working, partial unemployment), a modification of daily life within households (e.g., management of children, protection of vulnerable people, living conditions), and a decreased wellbeing (linked to health issues, restrictions of activities and social interactions, or economic consequences) with elements of distress, loneliness, and anxiety [1][2][3][4][5] . Paradoxically, during this period, general and social media have reported that individuals and businesses seemed to show great adaptability to face the situation by finding innovative solutions as well as creative behaviors.…”

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“…The situation related to COVID-19 likely has a major impact on many if not all the creativity dimensions or factors described above, by affecting our emotions, motivations, and wellbeing, modifying our environment, our lifestyle, and availability, but also by modifying the standards and incentives of our society during this period, opening a new framework of thought 30,31 . Several studies reported how the pandemic and lockdown had increased psychological distress, mood disorders, loneliness, and anxiety [1][2][3][4][5] , with a potential negative impact on creativity. Nevertheless, the few existing scientific studies that explored creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic have indeed suggested that the lockdown period facilitated everyday creativity 32,33 or that creative abilities could help people dealing with the situation and improve their wellbeing 3,34,35 .…”

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Through thick and thin: changes in creativity during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lopez-Persem¹,

Bieth²,

Guiet³

et al. 2021

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COVID-19 took us by surprise. We all had to face a new situation never encountered before and find new solutions to the problems it generated, either related to the disease or the lockdown's consequences. The lockdown and pandemic crisis caused new issues and placed us in an entirely new context, changing our way of life, work time and conditions, and habits. Coping with such an unprecedented situation may have stimulated creativity. However, the situation also restricted our liberties and wellbeing and triggered health or psychological difficulties. Worrying, concerns, challenging conditions of confinement may have hampered creativity or its expression. Hence, wellbeing factors related to affective experience, living conditions, social interactions, as well as workload or available free time, may have impacted creativity during the lockdown. We carried out an online survey based on a self-administered questionnaire to examine whether the first lockdown period related to the COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2020) was associated with creativity changes and explore the role of several factors in these changes. We measured self-reported creativity changes using two approaches: changes in creative self-efficacy and creative activities and achievements. We related them to several variables estimating time availability, conditions of confinement, social interactions, and affective experience of the situation. Despite a global negative subjective experience of the situation, individuals who participated in our survey (n=380) reported that they were on average more creative during the lockdown than before and engaged in more creative activities. The converging results from self-perceived and activity-based measures showed that this positive change could be linked with more time availability, feeling more motivated or inspired, or the need to solve a problem. However, when negative changes in creativity were experienced, they were instead related to negative affective experiences, including stress and anxiety, a low mood, a feeling of pressure, or a lack of resources or opportunities. This study helps to document what happened during the first lockdown period in France regarding aspects of creativity, showing some positive outcomes of the situation despite its negative consequences, and providing cues about the key factors that stimulated or, on the contrary, blocked creativity.

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Through thick and thin: changes in creativity during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Lopez-Persem¹,

Bieth²,

Guiet³

et al. 2021

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“…The situation related to COVID-19 likely had a major impact on many if not all the creativity dimensions or factors described above, by affecting our emotions, motivations, and wellbeing ( Bu et al, 2020 ; Li et al, 2020 ; Michinov and Michinov, 2020 ; Roma et al, 2020 ; Zabelina et al, 2021 ), modifying our environment, our lifestyle, and availability, but also the standards and incentives of our society during this period, opening a new framework of thought ( Kapoor and Kaufman, 2020 ; Beghetto, 2021 ). The few existing scientific studies that explored creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic have indeed suggested that the lockdown period facilitated everyday creativity ( Karwowski et al, 2021 ; Mercier et al, 2021 ) or that creative abilities could help people dealing with the situation and improve their wellbeing ( Michinov and Michinov, 2020 ; Tang et al, 2020 ; Elisondo, 2021 ; Hofreiter et al, 2021 ; Orkibi, 2021 ).…”

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Through Thick and Thin: Changes in Creativity During the First Lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic

et al. 2022

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COVID-19 took us by surprise. We all had to face the lockdown and pandemic that put us in a new context, changing our way of life, work conditions, and habits. Coping with such an unprecedented situation may have stimulated creativity. However, the situation also restricted our liberties and triggered health or psychological difficulties. We carried out an online survey (n = 380) to examine whether and how the COVID-19 related first lockdown period was associated with creativity changes in French speaking population. Despite a global negative subjective experience of the situation, participants reported that they were more creative during the lockdown than before. Positive changes were linked with more time availability, more motivation, or the need to solve a problem while negative changes were related to negative affective feelings or a lack of resources or opportunities. This study documents the effects of the first lockdown period on creativity and the factors that influenced it.

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Face memory and facial expression recognition are both affected by wearing disposable surgical face masks

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Faces are fundamental stimuli for social interactions since they provide significant information about people’s identity and emotional states. With the outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic, global use of preventive measures, such as disposable surgical face masks (DSFMs), has been imposed. The massive use of DSFMs covering a large part of the face could interfere with identity and emotion recognition. Thus, the main aim of the current study was (i) to assess how DSFMs affect identity recognition (Experiment 1), (ii) how DSFMs affect emotion recognition (Experiment 2), and (iii) whether individual empathy levels correlate with emotion recognition with DSFMs. The potential relation between identity and emotion recognition with and without DSFMs was also investigated. Two tasks were administered to 101 healthy participants: (i) the Old-new face memory task aimed to assess whether the learning context (i.e., DSFMs on/off) affects recognition performance, whereas (ii) the Facial affect task explored DSFMs’ effect on emotion recognition. Results from the former showed that the stimuli’s features in the learning stage affect recognition performances; that is, faces wearing DSFMs were better recognized if wearing DSFMs at first exposure and vice versa. Results from the Facial affect task showed that DSFMs lead to reduced disgust, happiness, and sadness recognition. No significant correlation emerged between identity and emotion recognition. The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) was administered to assess affective and cognitive empathy; however, IRI scores did not correlate with either face memory recognition or facial affect recognition. Overall, our results demonstrate (a) a “context effect” for face memory with and without DSFMs; (b) a disruptive effect of DSFMs depending on the expressed emotion; and (c) no correlation between empathy and emotion recognition with DSFMs.

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Imagination, anxiety, and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Through thick and thin: changes in creativity during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Through thick and thin: changes in creativity during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Through Thick and Thin: Changes in Creativity During the First Lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Face memory and facial expression recognition are both affected by wearing disposable surgical face masks

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