- Creative expressiveness in childhood writing predicts educational achievement beyond motivation and intelligence: A longitudinal, genetically informed study Toivainen, Teemu; Madrid‐Valero, Juan J; Chapman, Robert; McMillan, Andrew; Oliver, Bonamy R. and Kovas, Yulia. 2021. Creative expressiveness in childhood writing predicts educational achievement beyond motivation and intelligence: A longitudinal, genetically informed study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(4), pp. 1395-1413. ISSN 0007-0998
- Judging in the Genomic era: judges’ genetic knowledge, confidence and need for training Selita, Fatos; Smereczynska, Vanessa; Chapman, Robert; Toivainen, Teemu and Kovas, Yulia. 2020. Judging in the Genomic era: judges’ genetic knowledge, confidence and need for training. European Journal of Human Genetics, 28(10), pp. 1322-1330. ISSN 1018-4813
- Visual and Linguistic Stimuli in the Remote Associates Test: A Cross-Cultural Investigation Toivainen, Teemu; Olteteanu, Ana-Maria; Repeykova, Vlada; Likhanov, Maxim and Kovas, Yulia. 2019. Visual and Linguistic Stimuli in the Remote Associates Test: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 926.
- Early Predictors of Creative Writing at Age 9 Badini, Isabella; Toivainen, Teemu; Oliver, Bonamy R and Kovas, Yulia. 2018. Early Predictors of Creative Writing at Age 9. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS, 49(8), pp. 63-74.
- Assessing Creative Expressiveness in Children’s Written Stories Using the Consensual Assessment Technique Toivainen, Teemu; Badini, I; Chapman, Robert; Malanchini, Margherita; Oliver, Bonamy R; Matsepuro, Daria and Kovas, Yulia. 2018. Assessing Creative Expressiveness in Children’s Written Stories Using the Consensual Assessment Technique. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS, 49(80), pp. 687-697.
- Prenatal testosterone does not explain sex differences in spatial ability Toivainen, Teemu; Pannini, Giulia; Papageorgiou, Kostas A.; Malanchini, Margherita; Rimfeld, Kaili; Shakeshaft, Nicholas and Kovas, Yulia. 2018. Prenatal testosterone does not explain sex differences in spatial ability. Scientific Reports, 8(13653), ISSN 2045-2322
- Creative Storytelling in Childhood is Related to Exam Performance at Age 16 Toivainen, Teemu; Malanchini, Margherita; Oliver, Bonamy R and Kovas, Yulia. 2017. Creative Storytelling in Childhood is Related to Exam Performance at Age 16. The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS, 33(40), pp. 375-384.
- Sex Differences in Non-Verbal and Verbal Abilities in Childhood and Adolescence Toivainen, Teemu; Papageorgiou, Kostas A.; Tosto, Maria G. and Kovas, Yulia. 2017. Sex Differences in Non-Verbal and Verbal Abilities in Childhood and Adolescence. Intelligence, 64, pp. 81-88. ISSN 0160-2896
Dr Teemu Toivainen
Staff details
Teemu main research interests are individual differences in creative cognition, cognitive abilities and personality.
Teemu is a Lecturer in Psychology. Teemu's research interests and teaching focuses on individual differences in different psychological constructs, such as creativity, cognitive abilities and personality.
Teaching and supervision
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Research Methods in Psychology
Research interests
In his research, Teemu explores questions related to creativity, such as what are the predictors and outcomes of creative thinking.
Also, Teemu investigates how creativity relates to other cognitive abilities, such as spatial and verbal ability, and personality.
In addition, Teemu explores how research findings on creativity can be applied to real life contexts, such as education and work.
Featured publications
Publications and research outputs
Article
- What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores Kandemirci, Birsu; Beaty, Roger E.; Johnson, Dan; Oliver, Bonamy R.; Kovas, Yulia and Toivainen, Teemu. 2025. What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores. Learning and Individual Differences, 118, 102626. ISSN 1041-6080
- Nothing but stereotypes? Negligible sex differences across creativity measures in Science, Arts and Sports adolescent high achievers Repeykova, Vlada; Toivainen, Teemu; Lihanov, Maxim; van Broekhoven, Kim and Kovas, Yulia. 2024. Nothing but stereotypes? Negligible sex differences across creativity measures in Science, Arts and Sports adolescent high achievers. Journal of Creative Behavior, 58(1), pp. 47-65. ISSN 2162-6057
- Consensus too soon: judges’ and lawyers’ views on genetic information use Selita, Fatos; Chapman, Robert; Kovas, Yulia; Smereczynska, Vanessa; Likhanov, Maxim and Toivainen, Teemu. 2023. Consensus too soon: judges’ and lawyers’ views on genetic information use. New Genetics and Society, 42(1), e2197583. ISSN 1463-6778
Book Section
- Creative Products in Science van Broekhoven, Kim and Toivainen, Teemu. 2025. Creative Products in Science. In: David H Cropley, ed. Creations: The Nature of Creative Products in the 21st Century. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 137-160. ISBN 9783031824142
Conference or Workshop Item
- Structure of Creativity: An Investigation on a Latent Structure of Thirteen Measures of Creativity Toivainen, Teemu; Shakeshaft, Nicholas G. and Kovas, Yulia. 2024. 'Structure of Creativity: An Investigation on a Latent Structure of Thirteen Measures of Creativity'. In: 15th International Conference on Education & Educational Psychology (ICEEPSY2024). Madrid, Spain 4 - 7 November 2024.
