This line of research is primarily based on web survey data (including self-report questionnaires, psychological assessments, and behavioral tests) from a large cohort of twins, collected in collaboration with the Swedish Twin Registry.

This gives us the unique opportunity to address questions regarding familial factors in creative cognition and achievement, and associated factors including cognitive ability, personality, childhood, training, motivation, flow proneness, significant life events etc.

Previous research suggests a relation between semantic leaps during free association, operationalized as the ability to come up with semantically unrelated words, and divergent thinking as measured with traditional creativity tests. However, it has yet to be shown that this form of creative potential is also relevant for real-life creative achievement. Furthermore, the role of familial factors in divergent thinking overall, is greatly underexplored. In this project we draw on our large twin cohort to address both these research questions.

Genetic and environmental influences on the phenotypic associations between intelligence, personality, and creative achievement in the arts and sciences

Domain specific traits predict achievement in music and multipotentiality
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2021.101584

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