Prior research suggests that having power makes individuals more creative, because the powerful are more willing to break with convention. We investigate the possibility that lower power individuals can also be creative when given the opportunity to warm up by completing a creative task more than once. In Study 1 (N = 153), we divided a creative ideation session into two consecutive rounds and found that low (vs. high) power individuals were less creative in the first round (replicating prior research), but low power individuals improved in the second round, attenuating the low power disadvantage. We replicated this effect in Study 2 (N = 121; pre-registered), with a different creativity task (i.e., structured imagination task) and expanded timeframe (i.e., five rounds instead of two). In Study 3 (N = 179; pre-registered), we again replicated the warm-up effect using two different creativity tasks that allowed us to rule out an alternative explanation. We conclude by discussing the theoretical implications of our findings for research on the dynamic effects of power on creativity and the practical implications for creativity, social equality, and education.

先前的研究表明，拥有权力会使个人更具创造力，因为有权势的人更愿意打破常规。我们调查了权力较低的人在有机会通过多次完成一项创造性任务来热身时也可以发挥创造力的可能性。在研究 1 ( N  = 153) 中，我们将创意构思会议分为连续两轮，发现低权力（相对于高权力）的人在第一轮的创造力较差（重复之前的研究），但低权力的人在第二轮，削弱低功率劣势。我们在研究 2 中复制了这种效应 ( N = 121; 预注册），具有不同的创造力任务（即结构化想象力任务）和扩展的时间范围（即五轮而不是两轮）。在研究 3（N  = 179；预注册）中，我们再次使用两个不同的创造性任务复制了热身效果，这使我们能够排除其他解释。最后，我们讨论了我们的发现对研究权力对创造力的动态影响的理论意义，以及对创造力、社会平等和教育的实际意义。