Core Research Process Update: October 2015

This month we looked more closely at the idea of television addiction and the choices that people make with regard to their television viewing. The literature appears to agree that television addiction does exist, and that it describes a particular set of behaviors that resemble drug or alcohol addiction. We found that television choices areRead More

Capsule Review: Final Evaluation of Turnaround Arts Initiative

Turnaround Arts tried to leverage arts education to reboot eight failing schools. Did it work?

Core Research Process Update: September 2015

This past month, Createquity continued conducting research for our follow-up to the article “Why Don’t They Come?” and our investigation of the history of change in the arts ecosystem over the past half-century. Arts and Economic Disadvantage This month, we looked closely at studies exploring reasons for lack of interest among people who do notRead More

Core Research Process Update: August 2015

This month, we investigate the arts and wellbeing and make progress on understanding the impact of television.

Notes to “Part of Your World”

The following end notes accompany our article, “Part of Your World: On the Arts and Wellbeing,” published on August 31, 2015: [1] For his part, Sen has written a stirring defense of incorporating cultural considerations into international development policy, although his essay does not dwell on explicit connections to the capability approach. [2] Createquity isRead More

Research Progress Report: What’s Up with Self-Actualization?

While the term continues to be bandied about with some regularity, there does not appear to be one agreed-upon definition of self-actualization and there is a lack of empirical support for Maslow’s hierarchy.

Capsule Review: What Do Happy People Do?

This study looks at the relationships between different ways that people spend their time according to 34 years of data collection in the General Social Survey and how those activities relate to overall life satisfaction.

Core Research Process Update: July 2015

Progress on a follow-up article to “Why Don’t They Come?,” and research on the major changes that have taken place in the arts ecosystem over the last 50 years.

Capsule Review: The Cultural Lives of Californians

“The Cultural Lives of Californians” is an attempt to model a different approach to cultural participation surveys.

Core Research Process Update: June 2015

Since our last update, we’ve made additional progress investigating the connection between arts participation and economic disadvantage. We’ve reviewed two new sources and also done “deeper dives” on one of the publications that were a part of our original investigation. This brings our total bibliography on the topic to 35 sources thus far. Here are the updates:Read More