Research
Kaile’s research examines how inspiration and creative engagement function as psychological processes in everyday life and work. Her work integrates cognitive psychology and affective science with computational approaches such as text-mining, network analysis, and machine learning, alongside experimental, longitudinal, and ecological assessment methods, to study how creative states emerge, are experienced, and shape motivation, meaning, and well-being.
FOCUS AREAS
Inspiration
The emergence and experience of inspiration, and how it can be cultivated to support motivation and creative action.
Creativity
Cognitive, emotional, and social processes underlying creative thinking, expression, and sustained creative work.
Well-being
Relationships between creative engagement, meaning, and psychological flourishing across everyday life and work.
Arts & Mindfulness
How arts engagement and mindfulness practices support emotion regulation and support creative cognition.
Kaile is a PhD candidate in cognitive psychology with a concentration in quantitative research methods.
She holds an MS in Psychology of the Arts, Neuroaesthetics, and Creativity.