Walking & Creative Thinking: Meta-Analysis Data and Replication Code

Ledingoana Thabane compiled this meta-analysis dataset and associated code to examine the relationship between walking and creative thinking. Hosted on Harvard Dataverse and updated in March 2026, the collection serves as the empirical basis for social science research into cognitive performance.

Use Cases

• Replicating the meta-analytic results using the provided analysis code
• Evaluating the effect sizes of walking interventions on creativity scores
• Performing a secondary meta-analysis by combining these effect sizes with new literature

Strengths

• Includes analysis code for research reproducibility
• Aggregates social science data on creativity metrics
• Hosted on Harvard Dataverse, ensuring academic provenance

Limitations

• Unknown number of studies or rows included
• Missing documentation for specific column headers and data formats
• No sample data available to verify data distribution

Provenance

Source

Thabane, Ledingoana via Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

meta-analysis of existing literature

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.