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Revisiting Mednick’s (1962) Theory of Creativity with a Composite Measure of Creativity: The Effect of Stimulus Type on Word Association Production J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Deana Vitrano, Jeanette Altarriba, Deniz Leblebici‐Basar
S.A. Mednick (1962) proposed a theory of creativity suggesting that highly creative individuals can produce more word associations to a stimulus than less creative individuals. Numerous studies have supported this theory using the Remote Associates Test (RAT) as the measure of creativity. Additionally, some studies have suggested that high‐frequency words elicit more word associations overall than
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The Creativity of Conspiracy Theories J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Eric Bonetto, Thomas Arciszewski
Conspiracy theories are narratives, they tell mostly fictional stories. In that sense, conspiracy theories are creative productions similar to other productions involving narratives, such as poems, films, or stories. However, contrary to these productions regularly studied in the field of creativity, conspiracy theories remain unexplored in this field. The present contribution proposes to consider
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The effect of changing the balance between right and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on different creativity tasks: A transcranial random noise stimulation study J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Javier Peña, Agurne Sampedro, Ainara Gómez‐Gastiasoro, Naroa Ibarretxe‐Bilbao, Leire Zubiaurre‐Elorza, Covadonga Aguiar, Natalia Ojeda
Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) increases performance in some perceptual tasks. However, little is known about its effect on creativity. Although dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been postulated as an important cortical area related to creativity, the relative role of left and right DLPFC is still unclear. We aimed to compare the effect of anodal left/cathodal right (L + R−)
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From Creative Environment to Administrative Innovation: Creation and Implementation in Top Management Teams J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Lu Chen, Yaping Gong, Yifan Song, Mo Wang
Drawing upon the stage model of innovation and the ability–motivation–opportunity (AMO) framework, we hypothesize the mediating role of top management team (TMT) creativity and the moderating roles of external social capital and environmental uncertainty in the relationship between TMT creative team environment and a firm’s administrative innovation. We collected multisource data from 136 TMTs and
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Sparking Creativity in Science Education J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Jenna T. Draper, Benjamin S. Freeling, Sean D. Connell
World‐class science requires inspiration, so how can we spark creativity in the modern university environment? Creativity does not come automatically: in the modern age, factors from electronic devices to time pressure can stifle creative thought. Yet, to solve the major problems of the future, it will be essential to stimulate creativity in scientific research and teaching. Here, we bring together
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Creative Thinking Counseling Teaching Program can Improve the Creativity, Creative Tendency, and Self‐Concept of Grade 7 Students: A Quasi‐Experimental Study J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Shih‐Yuan Huang, Pei‐Jung Ko, Hsiao‐Hui Lin, Ru‐Huei Dai, Hsueh‐Chih Chen
We developed a Creative Thinking Counseling Teaching Program (CTCTP) for Grade 7 students using the self‐concept of the counseling curriculum as the primary development axis and investigated how this program influences creativity, creative tendency, and self‐concept. We adopted a non‐equivalent control group pre‐test–post‐test quasi‐experimental design. Of 133 participants, the experimental group (67
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The effects of board games on creative potential J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-02-27 Maxence Mercier, Todd Lubart
The current study aimed to investigate whether board games could be used to improve creative potential. Games have proven to be effective learning tools, and some studies have indicated positive links between creativity and other types of games, namely video games and role‐playing games. However, less is known regarding board games’ potential benefits on creativity. This exploratory study compared
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The Nuanced Relationship Between Creative Cognition and the Interaction Between Executive Functioning and Intelligence J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Christa L. Taylor, Arash E. Zaghi
The current study addresses gaps in our understanding of the relationship between creative cognition, intelligence (IQ), and executive functioning (EF). Undergraduate students completed an IQ test, verbal and figural divergent thinking (DT) tests, and a self‐assessment of EF, across four study sessions. Participant data (N = 199) were analyzed using linear regression and PROCESS moderation models.
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From Explicit to Implicit Theories of Creativity and Back: The Relevance of Naive Criteria in Defining Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Robert Weisberg, Nicolas Pichot, Eric Bonetto, Jean‐Baptiste Pavani, Thomas Arciszewski, Nathalie Bonnardel
The different definitions of creativity that have been proposed by researchers have developed out of what are called explicit theories of creativity, on the basis of logical and semantic arguments, independently of empirical data. The present paper focuses on two such definitions, the standard definition (M.A. Runco & G.J. Jaeger, 2012), which defines a creative product as one that is novel and valuable
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Accounting for Variable Task Discrimination in Divergent Thinking Fluency Measurement: An Example of the Benefits of a 2‐Parameter Poisson Counts Model and its Bifactor Extension Over the Rasch Poisson Counts Model J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 Nils Myszkowski, Martin Storme
Fluency tasks are among the most common item formats for the assessment of certain cognitive abilities, such as verbal fluency or divergent thinking. A typical approach to the psychometric modeling of such tasks (e.g., Intelligence, 2016, 57, 25) is the Rasch Poisson Counts Model (RPCM; Probabilistic models for some intelligence and attainment tests. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for Educational Research
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How Cognitive Control, Autistic and Schizotypal Traits Shape Context Adaptation of Convergent Thinking J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Julie Ramain, Christine Mohr, Ahmad Abu‐Akel
Divergent thinking, the ability to generate multiple ideas from different perspectives, is considered a central component of the creative thinking process. While context, personality traits, and cognitive control abilities have individually been shown to have large effects on divergent thinking, their interrelationship is yet to be elucidated. In 83 healthy participants (Males = 42%), we investigated
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Having a Creative Day: A Daily Diary Study of the Interplay Between Daily Activating Moods and Physical Work Environment on Daily Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Nai‐Wen Chi, Hsueh‐Hua Liao, Wan‐Ling Chien
Although recent studies have attempted to clarify the daily dynamics between moods and creativity, relatively limited studies have explored how daily positive and negative activating moods influence changes in daily creativity (i.e., controlling for the effects of prior daily creativity) in real organizations. Furthermore, although the importance of the physical working environment has been highlighted
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Impact of Inclusive Leadership on Innovative Work Behavior: The Role of Creative Self‐Efficacy J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Basharat Javed, Tasneem Fatima, Abdul Karim Khan, Sajid Bashir
This study examines the relationship between the relational mode of leadership (i.e., inclusive leadership) and innovative work behavior with the mediating role of creative self‐efficacy. Data were collected from employees of small and medium textile enterprises in Pakistan. Results show that there is a positive relationship between inclusive leadership and innovative work behavior. While aligned with
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Creative, Antagonistic, and Angry? Exploring the Roots of Malevolent Creativity with a Real‐World Idea Generation Task J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-12-12 Corinna M. Perchtold‐Stefan, Andreas Fink, Christian Rominger, Ilona Papousek
Research is currently witnessing more investigations into malevolent creativity—creativity that is used to intentionally harm others. Inspired by previous methods to measure malevolent creativity, in the present study, we introduce a real‐world behavioral task designed to capture individuals’ capacity for using creativity for the purpose of attaining malevolent goals in response to everyday, provocative
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Creativity and Well‐being: A Meta‐analysis J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-12-12 Selcuk Acar, Harun Tadik, Danielle Myers, Carian van der Sman, Recep Uysal
Creativity and well‐being are popular subjects in psychological and organizational studies. The recent literature presented mixed perspectives about the nature of the relationship between the two. Whereas the mad‐genius hypothesis, which was often explored among eminently creative individuals, seems to imply a negative relationship between the two, trends in the field of creativity, such as everyday
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Identifying the Double‐Edged Sword of Stardom: High‐Status and Creativity in the Context of Status Instability J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Len Karakowsky, Igor Kotlyar, Jessica Good
According to much of the extant research, the conferral of high‐status serves as an invaluable muse for creativity. That is, the research has suggested that high‐status affords individuals the confidence, freedom, and leeway necessary to bolster creative performance. However, this assertion is premised on the view that status hierarchies are stable and thereby the conferral of high‐status is irrevocable
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Is There Really a Creativity Crisis? A Critical Review and Meta‐analytic Re‐Appraisal J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Baptiste Barbot, Sameh Said‐Metwaly
The idea of a “creativity crisis” is widely accepted in the creativity and education literature. Its popular interpretation as a decline in creativity across generations originates from Kim’s (2011) influential analysis of the re‐norming data in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). The present work offers a critical review and reappraises the findings of Kim (2011), while incorporating new
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What Good is Charitable Giving for the Giver? The Combined Effect of Charitable Giving and Construal Level on Giver Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Yunchul Shin, Sujin Lee
What good is charitable giving for the giver? While previous research has examined ways of increasing charitable donations of money and their associated emotional benefits, extant studies have overlooked the cognitive consequences of giving for the giver. The present research examines the causal relationship between charitable donation of money and giver creativity. Data from a laboratory experiment
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Everyday Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Ana Luisa Ilha Villanova, Miguel Pina e Cunha
We systematically review the concept and main characteristics of everyday creativity. First, we highlight the fact that a comprehensive definition of everyday creativity is still missing. The evidence reveals that the lack of a single approach for assessing everyday creative outcomes has led to an ambiguous understanding of this concept. Therefore, we propose a complementary perspective to define everyday
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Depressive Anhedonia and Creative Self‐concepts, Behaviors, and Achievements J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Paul J. Silvia, Kari M. Eddington, Kelly L. Harper, Chris J. Burgin, Thomas R. Kwapil
In the large literature on creativity and mental illness, relatively few studies have explored anhedonia—impairments in anticipating, seeking, and experiencing rewards. This project explored self‐reported creativity in a sample of adults who differed in depressive anhedonia, determined via face‐to‐face structured clinical interviews. Participants completed measures of everyday creativity (engaging
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Exploring the Effects of Age, Gender, and School Setting on Children’s Creative Thinking Skills J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Bhagyashree Shah, Erik Gustafsson
The current study aimed to investigate whether age, gender, and testing environment may have an effect on children’s creativity in a real‐life setting. Participants included 111 children aged from seven to eleven years. They were given one verbal (Guilford’s Alternative Uses Task) and one figural (Test for Creative Thinking–Drawing Production) creative thinking task either in their everyday classroom
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Microserendipity in the Creative Process J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Wendy Ross, Frédéric Vallée‐Tourangeau
Qualitative research on creativity often highlights the role of accidents in creative process, but there is little research that takes these as its main topic. Perhaps because a model that relies on accidents undermines the meaningfulness of creativity; perhaps because the phenomenon itself is too complex to underwrite an entire research program. This paper suggests the framework of serendipity to
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The Normative Features of Creativity: Creative Individuals are Judged to be Warmer and More Competent J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Eric Bonetto, Nicolas Pichot, Fabien Girandola, Nathalie Bonnardel
Many studies mention the social valorization of creative individuals. However, previous works show contrasting results concerning both this valorization and the links between creativity and the two dimensions of social judgment (individuals’ warmth and competence). Consequently, we implemented two paradigms classically used when examining the normative features of individuals' traits such as creativity
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The Process of Art‐making and Creative Expertise: An Analysis of Artists' Process Modification J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Sawako Yokochi, Takeshi Okada
The present study investigates how emerging/young and established/expert artists create artwork, paying special attention to modifications in the art‐making process. Here, “process modification” is the means by which artists generate new artistic concepts by modifying elements of their previous artwork. To examine whether emerging artists use such modifications in the same manner as experts, we interviewed
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A Meta‐Analysis of the Relationship between Mathematics Achievement and Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Ali Bicer, Scott Chamberlin, Celal Perihan
In the current investigation, research studies (n = 30) conducted from 1965 to 2018 were synthesized to examine the mathematics achievement–creativity relationship and the range of factors that could have moderated this relationship. The meta‐analysis included sample size of 11,418 and revealed that there was an overall moderate and statistically significant (r = 0.47, p < .05) positive correlation
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Four Text‐Mining Methods for Measuring Elaboration J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Denis Dumas, Peter Organisciak, Shannon Maio, Michael Doherty
When individuals engage in divergent thinking, they vary on their Elaboration, or the degree to which they explain and embellish their responses. Although Elaboration has been considered relevant to creativity research for decades, its measurement has remained under‐developed. Here, we leverage technical and methodological perspectives from the text‐mining literature to posit four methods for quantifying
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Values Across Creative Domains J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Christa L. Taylor, James C. Kaufman
Past research has demonstrated that the hierarchical value structures of creative individuals differ systematically from their less creative counterparts. However, earlier studies used a global creativity score, which is inconsistent with both creativity’s movement toward a domain‐specific viewpoint, and Lebedeva et al.’s 2019 study suggests the relationship between values and the frequency of creative
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Measuring Creative Writing with the Storyboard Task: The Role of Effort and Story Length J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Christa L. Taylor, James C. Kaufman, Baptiste Barbot
The present study examines effort in narrative creative writing (operationalized as time‐on‐task) using a new assessment approach, the storyboard task. Participants (N = 125) completed alternate forms of the storyboard task in two sessions five weeks apart. They also completed measures of divergent thinking and self‐reported ideational behavior. Time‐on‐task, story length, and rated creativity scores
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Imaginary Companions in Childhood: What Can Prospective Longitudinal Research Tell Us About Their Fate by Adolescence? J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Helena M. McAnally, Bridget J. Forsyth, Marjorie Taylor, Elaine Reese
Do adolescents remember imaginary companions (ICs) from early childhood? Researchers interviewed 46 adolescent participants in a prospective longitudinal study about their ICs from early childhood (age 5½). The existence of one or more ICs was documented in early childhood for 48% of children (G. Trionfi & E. Reese, 2009). At age 16, most adolescents had forgotten their early childhood ICs: Only 5
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How Does Art Viewing Inspires Creativity? J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Chiaki Ishiguro, Takeshi Okada
Professional and amateur artists seek inspiration from viewing the works of others to enhance their creativity. This paper focuses on inspiration for artistic creation through art viewing by reviewing psychology studies on what types of artwork promote individuals’ inspiration for creation (inspiring artwork) and how they experience inspiration through their art appreciation (the appreciation process)
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The Vital Few: Exploring the Role of Expertise in the Process of Team Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-08-02 Gang Zhang, Huihui Li, Shimei Yan
This study provides insight into the role of expertise in the process of team creativity. Existing process models, that is, the random variation model and the creative synthesis model, either fail to treat team as an independent creative entity or neglect the differentiation in the voice of individual members in team creative process. In contrast, this study recognizes the role of expertise in shaping
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How to Guard Against Fixation? Demonstrating Individual Vulnerability is More Effective Than Warning of General Risk J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Maria Adriana Neroni, Nathan Crilly
Creative behavior can be inhibited by fixation and so reducing fixation is a focus of much creativity research. One of the most common methods of tackling fixation is to warn people of fixation risks and instruct them to avoid constrained problem framing and solution search. However, such treatments are often ineffective. One possible explanation for this is that people typically believe that they
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Decision‐Making In A Choreographic Creative Process: A Quantitative Approach J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-17 Ana R. Fonseca, Rodrigo Abril‐de‐Abreu, Carla Fernandes
Human creativity finds in artistic practices one of its most admirable forms. Most of the studies about artistic practices have used qualitative approaches, focusing on the conceptual structures conveyed by the artwork. Few studies have used quantitative approaches with the potential to be generalized. This study has focused on developing a quantitative methodology to characterize an artist’s behavioral
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Creativity Assessment over Time: Examining the Reliability of CAT Ratings J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Philipp Barth, Georg Stadtmann
The consensual assessment technique (CAT) is a reliable and valid method to measure (product) creativity and often considered the gold standard of creativity assessment. The reliability measure traditionally applied in CAT studies—inter‐rater reliability—cannot capture time‐sampling error, which is a particular relevant source of error for specific applications of the CAT. Therefore, the present study
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The Controversial Effect of Age on Divergent Thinking Abilities: A Systematic Review J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Giulia Fusi, Sara Lavolpe, Maura Crepaldi, Maria Luisa Rusconi
Divergent thinking (DT) is considered as an indicator of creative potential and a predictor of creative achievement. Furthermore, it is also conceptualized as an indicator of cognitive reserve (CR) in healthy elderly. CR refers to a functional benefit that can potentially offer protection against brain pathologies and is thereby considered a protective factor against cognitive decline. Creativity researchers
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Cooking, Creativity, and Well‐Being: An Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Jonathan E. Mosko, Madilynn J. Delach
This study seeks to uncover the benefits of participating in the act of cooking. The study was conducted in two phases at a mid‐sized private university on the East Coast: First was a phenomenological inquiry (n = 8), followed by a survey (n = 420). Measures included the Ryff scales of psychological well‐being and a survey of cooking attitudes and behaviors. Four distinct qualitative themes were identified
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Conscientiousness in Teams Completing Creative Tasks: Does it Predict? J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-06-11 Simon Taggar
The relationship between conscientiousness and creativity remains equivocal. This is surprising because conscientiousness is a good predictor of job performance across most criteria and occupations. In this longitudinal study, I found support for the achievement striving and the dependability aspects of conscientiousness affecting team member creativity in different ways. Specifically, the achievement
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Examining the Influence of Mood on the Bright Side and the Dark Side of Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Matan Yefet, Joseph Glicksohn
The current exploratory study was designed to examine whether an expert‐generated rating of the creativity of a product and of its darkness‐brightness would both be influenced by the mood of the participants who had created that product. Positive and negative moods of the participants were induced by watching an emotional video, followed by appropriate instrumental music. Our participants were students
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A Comparison of Creativity‐Relevant Personal Characteristics in Adolescents Across Personality Profiles J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-05-25 Sakhavat Mammadov
The present research investigated personality profiles in early and middle adolescents (N = 168) and compared the emerged profiles by creative ideation, motivational autonomy, and self‐efficacy in self‐regulation. Cluster analyses revealed three profiles: Resilients, Flexibles, and Averages. The personality types described in the literature were only partially replicable. Resilients had low scores
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The Mediation Effect of Ethical Leadership and Creative Performance: A Social Information Processing Perspective J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-05-21 Kwame Ansong Wadei, Lu Chen, Joseph Frempong, William Ansah Appienti
Drawing upon social information processing theory, the study examined how ethical leadership shapes creative performance. Specifically, we tested a theoretical model integrating the sequential roles of psychological safety and creative self‐efficacy. A two‐waved sample of 512 supervisor‐subordinate dyads from frontline employees of three service industries located in Ghana was administered. The results
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Three Modes of Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Edwin Creely, Danah Henriksen, Michael Henderson
This article is an ontological investigation of the term creativity, to suggest a model that infuses key philosophical and critical perspectives. This article proposes that creativity has three modes of existence or ways of being in the world: the Visceral (embodiments), the Ideational (mind and conceptual), and the Observational (appreciation, critical, and evaluative). We view creativity synergistically
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Effects of Movement Improvisation and Aerobic Dancing on Motor Creativity and Divergent Thinking J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Veronique Richard, Sigal Ben‐Zaken, Małgorzata Siekańska, Gershon Tenenbaum
Creativity is considered to be an embodied concept, where internal psychological and external behavioral processes are intertwined. Creativity enhancement programs often target the cognitive side of this bi‐dimensionality leaving the impact of motor interventions underexplored. To address this gap in the literature, we tested the effectiveness of two motor programs on motor creativity and divergent
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Creative Actions Scale: A Spanish Scale of Creativity in Different Domains J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-04-20 Romina Cecilia Elisondo
This article introduces the Creative Actions Scale (CAS), a Spanish self‐report assessment of individual differences in creative actions. The CAS consists of independent scales that assess the frequency of engagement in everyday creative actions across seven domains: Literature, Plastic Arts and Crafts, Science and Technology, Scenic Arts, Music, Social Participation, and Everyday Creativity. The sample
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On the Conceptual Overlap between the Fluency Contamination Effect in Divergent Thinking Scores and the Chance View on Scientific Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-04-10 Boris Forthmann, Carsten Szardenings, Denis Dumas
The equal odds baseline is a parsimonious model that describes the relationship between quantity and quality of output in scientific creativity. Specifically, it is posited that quality is a linear function of quantity, and therefore, strong positive correlations between these two variables are expected. Strong positive correlations also play a crucial role in a recurring issue in divergent thinking
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A Self‐Determination Approach to Understanding Individual Values as an Interaction Condition on Employees' Innovative Work Behavior in the High‐Tech Industry J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Zheni Wang, Mengchan Gao, Alexandra Panaccio
Drawing on self‐determination theory (SDT; E.L. Deci & R.M. Ryan, 1985, 2000) and using corporate samples (N = 284; 63% Male; Mean Age = 34, SD = 6.09) from high‐tech firms in China, this empirical study explored the path model from satisfaction of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, through autonomous motivation to employees' innovative work behavior (“IWB”; J
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Does Cognitive Style Moderate Expected Evaluation and Adolescents' Creative Performance: An Empirical Study J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Weina Lei, Wenbo Deng, Rongjuan Zhu, Mark A. Runco, David Yun Dai, Weiping Hu
Two studies investigated the effects of cognitive and school environmental factors on adolescents' creative performance. The first study tested the effects of expected evaluation and cognitive style on creativity among 89 high school students. The second study tested the effects of evaluation type and cognitive style on creativity among 92 high school students. Study 1 found main effects of expected
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Using a Fork as a Hairbrush: Investigating Dual Routes to Release from Functional Fixedness J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-03-27 Dawn R. Weatherford, Lemira V. Esparza, Laura J. Tedder, Olivia K. H. Smith
Functional fixedness involves difficulty with conceptualizing creative object uses. When it obstructs problem‐solving, individuals must reframe their approach. We examined how different training techniques—chunk decomposition (i.e., considering an object’s basic parts and physical properties) and constraint relaxation (i.e., considering an object’s different functions)—might rely upon different routes
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The Impact of Affective States and Affective Shifts on Creative Ideation and Evaluation J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Yu‐Chun Lai, Shu‐Ling Peng, Po‐Sheng Huang, Hsueh‐Chih Chen
This study aims to examine the impact of affective states and affective shifts on ideation and evaluation of creativity. Affects were induced by a two‐stage imagination procedure of recalling autobiographical experiences. Three periods of divergent thinking were measured to represent the participants’ creative ideation at different times. Creative evaluation was measured by estimating the originality
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Self‐Directed Learning in Creative Activity: An Ethnographic Study in Technology‐Based Work J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-02-24 Soila Lemmetty, Kaija Collin
Under conditions of rapid changes in working life, there is an urgent need to examine the nature of creativity and learning in organizations. The aim of this study was to investigate the nature of self‐directed learning (SDL) practices in creative activity in technology‐based work. We focus on both individual and collective practices but also on the importance of organizational culture. The data consist
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Supervisor Emotionally Intelligent Behavior and Employee Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-02-18 Zorana Ivcevic, Julia Moeller, Jochen Menges, Marc Brackett
In a national study of employees across industries (N = 14,645), we examined the role of supervisor emotionally intelligent behavior for employee opportunity to grow, their affect at work, and creativity/innovation at work. Employees reported on their supervisors' emotionally intelligent behavior (perceiving, using, understanding, and managing emotions), and self‐reported about their job experiences
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Environmental and Psychological Factors that Influence the Creative Excellence of Brazilian and Portuguese Women J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-02-16 Maria Célia Bruno Mundim, Solange Muglia Wechsler, Maria de Fátima Morais
There is increasing recognition of the importance of creativity for social development. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there were differences among Brazilian and Portuguese women recognized for their creative excellence in relation to the psychological and environmental factors that might impact their achievements. The sample was composed of 33 women; 18 who were socially recognized
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What could be My Next Job? Using Flat Information Structures to Generate Creative Future Career Ideas J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-01-10 Anna Schilling, Pinar Celik, Martin Storme
In a dynamic labor market, it is important to help people combine information and generate creative solutions to cope with complex career challenges. In the present research, we apply the theory of information structure to creative career idea generation and hypothesize that flat information structures—that is, structures in which the information is disorganized—are more conducive to creativity than
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Within‐person Relationship between Creative Self‐efficacy and Individual Creativity: The Mediator of Creative Process Engagement and the Moderator of Regulatory Focus J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2020-01-10 Ci‐Rong Li, Yanyu Yang, Chen‐Ju Lin, Ying Xu
Integrating the dynamic self‐regulatory framework with the motivational self‐regulation perspective, we theorize and test how and when creative self‐efficacy increases individual creativity at the within‐person level. Conceptualizing creative process engagement as a self‐regulation effort, we theorize that creative process engagement mediates the within‐person effect of creative self‐efficacy on individual
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Commentary: Moment of (Perceived) Truth: Exploring Accuracy of Aha! Experiences J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2019-12-26 Margaret E. Webb, Ruben E. Laukkonen, Simon J. Cropper, Daniel R. Little
Danek and Salvi (The Journal of Creative Behavior, 1–3, 2018) provide a sound overview of research on the relationship between feelings of aha and the accuracy of problem‐solving solutions. However, there are reasons to be cautious in concluding that a characteristic of insightful solutions is their superior accuracy. A relationship between correct solutions and aha experiences clearly exists in the
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Social Media Use and Creativity: Exploring the Influences on Ideational Behavior and Creative Activity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2019-11-21 Selcuk Acar, Michelle Neumayer, Cynthia Burnett
This study explored the relationship between social media (SM) use and creativity. The data collected from 407 participants included indicators such as time spent using SM, frequency of SM use, purposes for using SM, and the nature of SM use. The data involved two aspects of creativity: ideational behavior and creative activity and accomplishment. Correlational analyses indicate that SM use is positively
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Active or Inert? An Experimental Comparison of Creative Ideation across Incubation Periods J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2019-11-15 Emily Frith, Pamela Ponce, Paul D. Loprinzi
The primary objective of this study was to contribute to the growing research discipline investigating the effects of physical exercise on divergent thinking creativity performance. Thirty‐two students participated in this two‐visit, within‐subject intervention. Individuals consented to participate in two randomized, and counterbalanced, experimental conditions, consisting of 15 min of active treadmill
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Mild Affective Shifts and Creativity: Effects on Idea Generation, Evaluation, and Implementation Planning J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2019-10-01 Logan L. Watts, Tristan J. McIntosh, Carter Gibson, Tyler J. Mulhearn, Kelsey E. Medeiros, Jensen T. Mecca, Yochi Cohen‐Charash
This study investigated the impact of mild shifts in affective tone (i.e., pleasant vs. unpleasant) and arousal (i.e., high vs. low) on three creative processes. Undergraduates read short stories designed to induce affective shifts and then were asked to generate solutions to a complex business problem. Shifts in affective tone and arousal interacted to influence idea generation and implementation
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The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale: Turkish Validation and Relationship to Academic Major J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Mehmet Ali Kandemir, James C. Kaufman
One common self‐assessment of creativity is the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K‐DOCS). This article provides support for a Turkish translation of the instrument, offering exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to determine whether the factors were consistent across cultures. The participants consisted of two groups. The first group consisted of 1,260 undergraduate students (912 females
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Creativity and Affective Temperament in Artistic and Non‐artistic Students: Different Temperaments are Related to Different Aspects of Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2019-09-12 Marcin Jaracz, Alina Borkowska
The relationship between creativity and temperament has been well documented in studies with professional artists. This also pertains to affective temperaments which constitute the vulnerability to affective disorders. However, less is known about the contribution of particular temperaments to specific components of creativity, for example, ideational fluency, or originality of thinking. The aim of
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Triangulating Creativity: Examining Discrepancies Across Self‐Rated, Quasi‐Expert‐Rated and Verbalized Creativity in Arts‐based Learning J. Creat. Behav. (IF 2.661) Pub Date : 2019-09-09 Jen Katz‐Buonincontro, Richard Hass, Elaine Perignat
This convergent mixed methods study examined the triangulation of self‐rated, quasi‐expert‐rated and verbalized creativity in students enrolled in a year‐long photography program. The quantitative data included self‐report scales in creativity, and ratings of creativity in students’ photography. The qualitative data included student interviews reflecting on their photographs and verbalizing their beliefs
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