Abstract Creativity seems to yield survival and reproductive benefits. Creative behaviors allow individuals to solve problems in new and appropriate ways, and thus to promote their survival. They also facilitate bonding and constitute a signal of one's fitness, favoring attraction of mates. However, to be creative, individuals often have to violate social norms in order to promote change. So far, this deviance induced by creative behaviors had not been seen as an adaptive disadvantage. This deviance entails negative consequences as social exclusion or ostracism, which are detrimental for both survival (e.g., reduced access to resources within the group) and reproduction (reduced reproductive fitness). Thus, the adaptive benefits yielded by creativity have to be nuanced by these potential disadvantages. The paradox of creativity proposes a finer-grained vision of the adaptive reasons why creativity has been maintained within the human species, has evolved, and is collectively regulated. Research perspectives are also proposed.

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创造力的悖论

摘要 创造力似乎可以带来生存和繁殖的好处。创造性行为使个人能够以新的和适当的方式解决问题，从而促进他们的生存。它们还有助于建立联系并构成一个人健康的信号，有利于吸引配偶。然而，要发挥创造力，个人往往不得不违反社会规范以促进变革。到目前为止，这种由创造性行为引起的偏差尚未被视为一种适应性劣势。这种偏差会带来社会排斥或排斥等负面后果，这对生存（例如，减少群体内获得资源的机会）和繁殖（降低生殖适应性）都是有害的。因此，创造力产生的适应性好处必须因这些潜在的缺点而有所不同。创造力的悖论提出了对创造力在人类中保持、进化和集体调节的适应性原因的更细粒度的愿景。还提出了研究观点。