/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 Ã山ǿ¼é, 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