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Email: ctromp [at] rider.edu

Phone Number: 609-895-5689

Office Location: Mike and Patti Hennessy Science and Technology Center

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Email: ctromp [at] rider.edu

Phone Number: 609-895-5689

Office Location: Mike and Patti Hennessy Science and Technology Center

Dr. Tromp is a Romanian-born cognitive psychologist whose research aims to elucidate the role of constraints in creativity. After a Ph.D. from Princeton University, she worked for a hedge fund and co-owned a recruiting firm in Manhattan before pursuing an academic career. At Rider University, she has been the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award, several summer research fellowships, and a Mazzotti Award in Women’s Leadership.

Representative Publications

Tromp, C. (2022). Creativity from integrated constraint exploration and exploitation. Psychological Reports. Advance online publication.

Tromp, C., & Sternberg, R. J. (2022a). How constraints impact creativity: An interaction paradigm. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication.

Tromp, C., & Sternberg, R. J. (2022b). Dynamic creativity: A Person × Task × Situation interaction framework. Journal of Creative Behavior. Advance online publication.

Tromp, C. (2022). Integrated constraints in creativity: Foundations for a unifying model. General Review of Psychology. Advance online publication. 

Haught-Tromp, C. (2017). The Green Eggs and Ham hypothesis: How constraints facilitate creativity.  Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(1), 10-17.

Haught-Tromp, C., & Stokes, P. D. (2017). Constraints, competency and creativity in the classroom. In R. Leikin & B. Sriraman, Eds., Creativity and Giftedness: Advances in Mathematics Education, pp. 105-116. The Netherlands: Springer Science and Business.

Haught-Tromp, C. (2016). Facilitating creative thinking in the 21st century: When constraints help. In D. Ambrose & R. J. Sternberg, Eds., Creative Intelligence in the 21st Century: Grappling with Enormous Problems and Huge Opportunities, pp. 107-117. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Haught-Tromp, C. (2016). Creativity and constraint: Friends, not foes. In J. C. Kaufman and J. Baer, Eds., Creativity and Reason in Cognitive Development, 2nd Edition, pp. 211-225. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Haught, C. (2015). The role of constraints in creative sentence production. Creativity Research Journal, 27 (2), 160-166.

Haught, C. (2014). Spain is not Greece: How metaphors are understood. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43, 351-356.

Haught, C. (2013). A tale of two tropes: How metaphor and simile differ. Metaphor and Symbol, 28, 254-274.

Glucksberg, S., and Haught, C. (2006). Can Florida become like the next Florida? When metaphoric comparisons fail. Psychological Science, 17, 935-938. 

Broader Dissemination Of Research

  • BBC Ideas: How limits can boost your creativity
  • BBC Radio: The digital human
  • CNN: More is less: The case against 280-character tweets
  • NY Magazine: Introducing the Green Eggs and Ham hypothesis of creativity
  • The Academic Minute: Constraint and creativity
  • Inside Higher Ed: Constraint and creativity

Teaching

Recipient of the Rider University Distinguished Teaching Award (2016).

  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Research Methods: Organizational Psychology
  • Statistics and Research Design
  • Research Methods: Cognition
  • Organizational Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Senior Seminar
  • Independent Study in Psychology
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