Apr 14, 2014
The data show that children have become: less emotionally expressive, less energetic, less talkative and verbally expressive, less humorous, less imaginative, less unconventional, less lively and passionate, less perceptive, less apt to connect seemingly irrelevant things, less synthesizing, and less likely to see things from a different angle." The largest drop, Kim noted, has been in the measure of “elaboration,” or the ability to take an idea and expand on it in a novel way.
-2011 paper “The Creativity Crisis” by Kyung-Hee Kim, an educational psychologist at the College of William and Mary
-cited in "The Overprotected Kid", Atlantic Monthly, by Hanna Rosin