Research
General research interests
- Intuition and expertise
- Implicit cognition
- Cognitive processes in creativity
Current projects
- Developing a New Measure of Holistic, Inferential, and Affective Intuition (collaboration with Jeff Brookings, Wittenberg)
- Intuition and Expertise in Nursing (collaboration with Vickie Folse, IWU School of Nursing)
- Student Nurses' Use of Intuition in Simulation (collaboration with Tama Morris, UNC Charlotte School of Nursing)
- The Interaction of Strategy and Complexity in the Balance Scale Task (collaboration with Corinne Zimmerman, Illinois State University)
- Individual Differences in Implicit Cognition (collaboration with Scott Kaufman, New York University)
- Development of Creativity in Arts and Sciences Majors (collaboration with Paul Silvia, UNC Greensboro and James C. Kaufman, CSU San Bernardino)
- The Creative Task Creator (a program for creating customized, web-based creativity tasks)
For projects in collaboration with students, please see the lab page.
Representative Publications(Selected papers available for download here.)
- Pretz, J.E., & Zimmerman, C. (2009). When the goal gets in the way: The interaction of goal specificity and task difficulty. Thinking and Reasoning, 15(4), 405-430.
- Silvia, P.J., Kaufman, J.C., & Pretz, J.E. (2009). Is creativity domain-specific? Latent class models of creative accomplishments and creative self-descriptions. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 3, 139-148.
- Pretz, J.E., & Link, J.A. (2008). The Creative Task Creator. A tool for the generation of customized, web-based creativity tasks. Behavior Research Methods, 40(4), 1129-1133.
- Pretz, J.E. (2008). Intuition versus analysis: Strategy use and experience in complex everyday problem solving. Memory and Cognition, 36(3) 554-566.
- Pretz, J.E., & Totz, K.S. (2007). Measuring individual differences in affective, heuristic, and holistic intuition. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(5), 1247-1257.
- Pretz, J.E., & Sternberg, R.J. (2005). Unifying the field: Cognition and intelligence. In R.J. Sternberg & J.E. Pretz (Eds.), Cognition and intelligence: Identifying the mechanisms of the mind, (pp. 306-318). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Pretz, J.E., Naples, A.J., & Sternberg, R.J. (2003). Recognizing, defining, and representing problems. In J.E. Davidson & R.J. Sternberg (Eds.), The psychology of problem solving, (pp. 3-30). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Sternberg, R.J., Kaufman, J.C., & Pretz, J.E. (2002). The creativity conundrum: A propulsion model of kinds of creative contributions. New York: Psychology Press.
- Wolfradt, U., & Pretz, J.E. (2001). Individual differences in creativity: personality, story writing, and hobbies. European Journal of Personality, 15(4), 297-310.