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  1. What Makes a Good Prompt? How Students Use ChatGPT to Solve Creative Problems

    Article • Learning and Instruction, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Marek Urban

  2. What Children Think the Internet Is and How We Can Teach It Better

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Marek Urban

  3. How Personal Beliefs and Task Experiences Shape the Way We Judge Our Creativity

    Article • Metacognition and Learning, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Marek Urban

  4. How Students Combine Expert Information and ChatGPT Content in Their Writing

    Article • British Journal of Educational Technology, April 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Marek Urban

  5. What New Computer Science Teachers Really Know About How the Internet Works

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, February 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Marek Urban

  6. What international PhD students really face in the Czech Republic

    Article • Higher Education Quarterly, February 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Marek Urban

  7. How Famous Artists Think about Their Creative Thinking

    Article • Thinking Skills and Creativity, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Marek Urban

  8. "I Know My Idea is Original!": Understanding Thinking about Creative Thinking in Kindergarteners

    Article • Thinking Skills and Creativity, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  9. Better Ideas, Less Effort: ChatGPT Is Changing Problem-Solving, But With Caveats

    Article • Computers & Education, March 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  10. What Drives Student Creativity? The Role of Motivation and the Value of Creative Thinking

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, February 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Kamila Urban, Dr. Marek Urban

  11. PhD Stress and Success: Student Blog Posts from Three Cultures Reveal the Journey Beyond Research

    Article • Studies in Continuing Education, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Marek Urban

  12. Writing Creatively: The Role of Motivation and Metacognition in Solving Real-World Problems

    Article • The Journal of Creative Behavior, January 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  13. Unlocking Creativity: How Understanding Your Own Thinking Boosts Your Creative Powers

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, December 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  14. Getting in Sync: What Creative Teams Can Learn from The Beatles' Collaboration

    Article • The Journal of Creative Behavior, November 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  15. How Democratic Values Shaped Emotions and Hope in the Czech Republic during the War in Ukraine

    Article • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Marek Urban

  16. Mastering Creativity: Ready to Measure Your Thinking in Innovative Problem Solving?

    Article • Thinking Skills and Creativity, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  17. Boosting Kids' Reading Skills: A Simple Teacher Training Approach That Works

    Article • Metacognition and Learning, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  18. Cultural Differences in the Construction of Gender: A Thematic Analysis of Gender Representations in American, Spanish, and Czech Children’s Literature

    Article • Human Affairs, December 2022, De Gruyter

    Dr. Marek Urban

  19. Orientation Toward Intrinsic Motivation Mediates the Relationship Between Metacognition and Creativity

    Article • The Journal of Creative Behavior, July 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  20. Early literacy curriculum and its journey to kindergarten classroom

    Article • Human Affairs, April 2022, De Gruyter

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  21. Thinking Smarter, Not Harder: How Understanding Your Thinking Drives Learning and Creativity

    Article • Thinking Skills and Creativity, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  22. Preschool Picassos to University Underestimators: Are We Really As Creative As We Think?

    Article • The Journal of Creative Behavior, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  23. Anchoring effect of performance feedback on accuracy of metacognitive monitoring in preschool children

    Article • Europe’s Journal of Psychology, February 2021, Leibniz-Institute of Psychology Information (ZPID)

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  24. Development of early literacy skills: A Comparison of two early literacy programmes

    Article • Journal of Pedagogy / Pedagogický casopis, December 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  25. Artificial, cheap, fake: Free associations as a research method for outdoor billboard advertising and visual pollution

    Article • Human Affairs, April 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  26. Effects of performance feedback and repeated experience on self-evaluation accuracy in high- and low-performing preschool children

    Article • European Journal of Psychology of Education, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban

  27. The Holocaust May Be Important, But It’s No Longer Original: Representations of the Holocaust in Slovak Theatre Reviews from 2000 to 2017

    Article • KOME, January 2019, KOME Journal

    Dr. Marek Urban

  28. Influence of Fluid Intelligence on Accuracy of Metacognitive Monitoring in Preschool Children Fades with the Calibration Feedback

    Article • Studia Psychologica, January 2018, Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Marek Urban, Dr. Kamila Urban