Dr Teemu Toivainen

Staff details

Position Lecturer
Department Psychology
Email t.toivainen (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Teemu Toivainen

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.

Publications and research outputs

Article

Repeykova, Vlada; Toivainen, Teemu; Lihanov, Maxim; van Broekhoven, Kim and Kovas, Yulia. 2023. Nothing but stereotypes? Negligible sex differences across creativity measures in Science, Arts and Sports adolescent high achievers. Journal of Creative Behavior, ISSN 2162-6057

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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