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On Apr 13, 2012, at 9:19 AM, scarlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> By my figuring, archaeologists tend to be an extraordinarily creative group of people.  Now we know why!
> This post is a teaser and reminder of my RFP about creativity for SHA 2013!
> Cheers,
> Tim
> 
> Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills by Christine Hsu. 
> http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_skills/
> 
> "Lead author Professor Jennifer Wiley of the University of Illinois at Chicago discovered that alcohol may enhance creativity problem solving by reducing the mind’s working memory capacity, which is the ability to concentrate on something in particular." 
> "...people who drank alcohol and had a blood alcohol level of 0.07 or higher were worse at completing problems that required attentional control but better at creative problem solving tests." "The surprising discovery was that participants with a BAC of 0.07 or higher solved 40 percent more problems than their sober counterparts and took 12 seconds to complete the tasks compared to 15.5 seconds by teetotal participants." "Wiley said that the key finding was that being too focused can blind a person to novel possibilities and a broader, more flexible state of attention may be helpful for creative solutions to emerge."
> 
> published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition 
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: scarlett <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Request for Papers: Reconsidering Archaeologies of Creativity
>> 
>> Request for Papers: Reconsidering Archaeologies of Creativity
>> 
>> Call for papers for the 46th Annual Conference on HIstorical and Underwater Archaeology, January 9-12, 2013, Leicester, Great Britain.
>> 
>> Human creativity is fundamental to understanding the transformations brought about by both globalization and immigration, the dual themes of the 2012 conference. People act and react creatively to these processes, in mundane and grand ways, individually and collectively. Thus, creativity intertwines and entangles it's processes with all human interactions. The process and contexts of creative action, as well as the concept of creativity itself, can be understood from psychological, behavioral, social, humanistic, and philosophical perspectives. Individual persons and groups derive creativity from the cultural improvisations of social interactions surrounding economic, religious, technological, recreational, and familial activities; movement through spaces and among places; rituals; and the shifting practices of daily life. While archaeologists have produced numerous studies of human's creative responses, we have given less attention to creativity itself, particularly in those archaeologies of the modern world. Scholars in the sciences and humanities have been able to describe some of the processes and contexts of creative action in the human experience, but those insights have not lead to creativity's rationalization or "corporate domestication."
>> 
>> I welcome archaeological studies that critically explore creativity from different perspectives, including:
>> - the social construction of creative process
>> - contexts of creative action, like work and play
>> - archaeological perspectives on creativity and the brain
>> - creativity and social change
>> - creativity and adaptation
>> - improvisation and creativity
>> - creativity and behavior
>> - creativity, capitalism, and entrepreneurial culture
>> - prehistory vs. history in understanding creativity
>> - detailed case studies of creative action, as critiques or assessment of creativity
>> 
>> Please contact Timothy Scarlett by May 1st, 2012 to express interest.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Tim
>> 
>> Timothy Scarlett
>> Industrial Heritage and Archaeology
>> Department of Social Sciences
>> Michigan Technological University
>> 
>> 1400 Townsed Dr. 
>> Houghton, MI 49931
>> (906)487-2359
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>> 
>> Additional conference information:
>> 
>>> The Conference Committee has announced their Call for Papers: http://ow.ly/9Vdzg
>> 
>> Conference webpage:
>> http://www.sha.org/meetings/annual_meetings.cfm
>>