/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1897/all en /newsroom/channels/news/measuring-creativity-one-word-time-332050 <p>Can you think of three words that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four, five, or even ten? According to an international team of researchers from Â鶹AV, Harvard University and the University of Melbourne, this simple exercise of naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance between them could serve as an objective measure of creativity.</p> Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:30:00 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 270373 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/pick-card-any-card-241589 <p>Magicians have astonished audiences for centuries by subtly, yet powerfully, influencing their decisions. But there has been little systematic study of the psychological factors that make magic tricks work.</p> <p> Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:12:13 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 22042 at /newsroom