Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Xiang, S., Li, Y., Daker, R., Li., Y, Guo, X., Lei, W., Hu, W. (2023). Linking Creativity Anxiety to Two Creative Cognitive Styles Through Creative Self-Efficacy and Novelty Seeking. Creativity Research Journal.

  • Daker, R., Viskontas, I., Porter, G., Colaizzi, G., Lyons, I., Green, A. (2023). Investigating Links Between Creativity Anxiety, Creative Performance, and State-level Anxiety and Effort During Creative Thinking. Scientific Reports.

  • Cortes, R., Peña, M., Daker, R., Colaizzi, G., Green, A. (2023). Evidence for an Asymmetric Switch Cost in State Creativity. Creativity Research Journal. 

  • Daker, R., Gattas, S., Necka, E., Green, A., Lyons, I. (2023). Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math? Nature Partner Journal: Science of Learning. 

  • Daker, R., Slipenkyj, M., Green, A., Lyons, I. (2023). Evidence for avoidance tendencies linked to anxiety about specific types of thinking. Scientific Reports.

  • Cortes, R., Peterson, E., Kraemer, D., Kolvoord, R., Uttal, D., Dinh, N., Weinberger, A., Daker, R., Lyons, I., Goldman, D., Green, A. (2022). Transfer from Spatial Education to Verbal Reasoning and Prediction of Transfer from Classroom-Based Neural Change. Science Advances.

  • Daker, R., Delage, V., Maloney, E., Lyons, I. (2022). Testing the specificity of links between anxiety and performance within the domains of mathematics and spatial reasoning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

  • Daker, R.*, Colaizzi, G.*, Mastrogiannis, A., Sherr, M., Lyons, I., Green, A. (2022). Predictive Effects of Creative Abilities and Attitudes on Performance in University-Level Computer Science Courses. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. * Shared first authorship

  • Daker, R., Gattas, S., Sokolowski, H., Green, A., Lyons, I. (2021). First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability. Nature Partner Journal: Science of Learning.

  • Ren, Z.*, Daker, R.*, Shi, L.*, Sun, J., Beaty, R., Wu, X., Chen, Q., Yang, W., Lyons, I., Green, A., Qiu, J. (2021). Connectome-Based Predictive Modeling of Creativity Anxiety.  NeuroImage. * Shared first authorship

  • Daker, R., Cortes, R., Lyons, I., Green, A. (2020). Creativity anxiety: Evidence for anxiety that is specific to creative thinking, from STEM to the arts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

  • Cortes, R., Weinberger, A., Daker, R., Green, A. (2019). Re-examining prominent measures of divergent and convergent creativity. Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences.

  • Daker, R., Lyons, I. (2018). Numerical and Non-numerical Predictors of First Graders’ Number-Line Estimation Ability. Frontiers in Psychology.