Creativity in energy balance, obesity and feeding behavior research, some thoughts
•This review provides an overview of examples of especially creative work.•Fields covered include ingestive behavior, energetics, and nutrition.•Common themes from our observations are highlighted.•A brief review of relevant literature on creativity and measurement is given.•Principles to promote cr...
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| Published in | Physiology & behavior Vol. 266; p. 114161 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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United States
Elsevier Inc
01.07.2023
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| Summary: | •This review provides an overview of examples of especially creative work.•Fields covered include ingestive behavior, energetics, and nutrition.•Common themes from our observations are highlighted.•A brief review of relevant literature on creativity and measurement is given.•Principles to promote creative science for researchers are suggested.
This review provides an overview of examples of especially creative work related to the fields of ingestive behavior, energetics (defined as the study of the acquisition, storage, and use of metabolizable energy by biological organisms and the causes and consequences of such acquisition, storage, and use), and nutrition, focusing on both individual works and discoveries, as well as bodies of works and in some cases the working styles of particular scientists. The paper then discusses some principles extracted from our observations as well as from the literature on creativity pointing out some factors that seem to make for more creative science and that can be done by individuals to promote creativity in their own work. Finally, we end with a short set of tips for the field in general to promote creativity among our ranks broadly. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Review-1 Preamble to the article by the senior author, David B. Allison. This paper was invited by the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) on the occasion of my receiving the 2022 Bart Hoebel Award for Creativity. I have been a proud member of the SSIB for decades and thank the Society and my peers for this award. I am deeply grateful and humbled by this honor. I had the privilege of knowing Professor Hoebel and always found him to be an incisive scientist and a gentleman. In recognition of the notion that creativity is not something inherent in the work but an element of appreciation that other humans bring to the perception of the work, creativity is perhaps best discussed, conceived, and enjoyed in the camaraderie of other thinkers and I am therefore joined by Dr. Stephen French, who worked together with me on the remainder of this document. I am grateful to all of my colleagues over the years who helped me conduct research that at least some saw as meriting recognition for its creativity, and I am especially grateful to my nominator, Professor Charles Mobbs. Professor Mobbs is a creative scientist himself, who has been a friend and scientific and intellectual foil for me for years, even though we have never worked at the same institution nor formally collaborated. His spirit of intellectual playfulness and of generosity toward colleagues are evident in his actions and I am thankful for both his friendship and his contributions to the field. The remainder of this article proceeds as follows. We begin with an overview of examples of especially creative work related to the fields of ingestive behavior, energetics (defined as the study of the acquisition, storage, and use of metabolizable energy by biological organisms and the causes and consequences of such acquisition, storage, and use) [1] focusing on both individual works and discoveries, as well as bodies of works and in some cases the working styles of particular scientists. We then discuss some principles extracted from our observations as well as from the literature on creativity pointing out some of the things that seem to make for more creative science and things that can be done by individuals to promote creativity in their own work. Finally, we end with a short set of tips for the field in general to promote creativity among our ranks broadly. |
| ISSN: | 0031-9384 1873-507X 1873-507X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114161 |