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Creative Activities Among Older Adults and People With Cognitive Impairment J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Francisca S. Rodriguez, Sabrina Ross, Josefin Fruck, Saskia Jaarsveld, Thomas Lachmann
Little is known about creativity in old age. The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent the intensity of engaging in creative activities differs between older and younger people as well as older people with and without cognitive impairment. Moreover, we evaluated associations of creative activities with specific cognitive abilities. For this cross‐sectional study, groups of younger people
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Creativity and Innovation in the K‐pop System and a Possible Link with Pansori J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Myung‐Sook Auh
This study aims to distinguish between creativity and innovation in K‐pop using a conceptual framework of the K‐pop system and to examine if any traces of Korean traditional Pansori are found in K‐pop. Innovation refers to successful implementation of creative ideas, and creative ideas without successful implementation are of no use in the business sector. A conceptual framework of the K‐pop system
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Creativity in the Ancient Greek Philosophy: The Politics of Demiourgein J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Brokalaki Zafeirenia
Where does creativity come from and what is its purpose? The paper revisits these ever‐turning questions to correct the prevalent but, arguably, inaccurate historical interpretation of creativity as a concept that emerged in modernity. First, I substantiate that a close study of the ancient Greek texts suggests that although creativity seems to occupy a peripheral position in the ancient philosophical
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Testing the Domain Specificity of Creativity with Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale: A Meta‐Analytic Confirmatory Factor Analysis J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Selcuk Acar, Emel Cevik, Emily Fesli, Rumeysa Nalan Bozkurt, James C. Kaufman
Domain‐specificity is a topic of debate within the field of creativity. To shed light on this issue, we conducted a meta‐analysis of cross‐domain correlations based on the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K‐DOCS). To evaluate the model fit of one general factor versus two factors that encompass the primary K‐DOCS subscales (Scholarly, Everyday, Artistic, Scientific, and Performance), we employed
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A Wandering Mind is Not Always a Creative Mind: How Thought Dynamics Explain the Relationship between Mind Wandering and Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Alwin de Rooij, Ali Atef, Myrthe Faber
A wandering mind is not always a creative mind. Anecdotes about ideas spontaneously entering awareness during walks, showers, and other off-task activities are plenty. The science behind it, however, is still inconclusive. Creativity might result from how thought context—whether thoughts are on-task or off-task—relates to thought dynamics—how thoughts unfold. To explore this, study 1 (n = 85) surveyed
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Strengthening Creative Problem-Solving within Upper-Elementary Science Education J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Robin H. Willemsen, Isabelle C. de Vink, Evelyn H. Kroesbergen, Ard W. Lazonder
This intervention study examined the effectiveness of instructional support tailored toward two techniques (i.e., random associations and constraint identification) to strengthen children's creative problem-solving skills within upper-elementary science education. Five inquiry-based science lessons with ample opportunity for creative problem-solving (i.e., divergent and convergent thinking) were provided
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Curious and Persistent, but not Consistent: Self-regulation Traits and Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Shengjie Lin, Zorana Ivcevic, Todd B. Kashdan, Scott Barry Kaufman
The present study examines two self-regulation traits, grit and curiosity, in predicting creative achievement in an adult sample (N = 522). Grit has been related to achievement in various domains, and although prior empirical work failed to find associations with everyday creative activities in adolescent and young adult samples, theoretically it is relevant to long-term creative achievement (which
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The Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 William Orwig, Emma R. Edenbaum, Joshua D. Greene, Daniel L. Schacter
Recent developments in computerized scoring via semantic distance have provided automated assessments of verbal creativity. Here, we extend past work, applying computational linguistic approaches to characterize salient features of creative text. We hypothesize that, in addition to semantic diversity, the degree to which a story includes perceptual details, thus transporting the reader to another time
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Process Modification and Uncontrollability in an Expert Contemporary Artist's Creative Processes J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Takeshi Okada, Sawako Yokochi
As a case study that consists of two parts, this research investigates how a pro-c class expert artist thinks and acts during art making, paying special attention to exploratory behaviors and task completion processes. In Part 1 of this case study, we videoed an artist's authentic creative process in his studio. We interviewed him about his drawing process by showing him the video recording right after
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Does Metacognition Matter in Creative Problem-Solving? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Writing J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Marek Urban, Kamila Urban
Creative problem-solving skills are essential for navigating complex, non-routine challenges, enabling individuals to create unique goals, execute innovative procedures and generate original outcomes. While the link between metacognitive skills and the creativity of outcomes was established only recently, further exploration is required to understand their interplay in complex problem-solving. This
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Creativity Research Overlooks the Study of Resilience among Young Children: A Bibliometric Network Review J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Nicolas B. Verger, Julie Roberts, Jane Guiller, Kareena McAloney-Kocaman
Creativity researchers are increasingly interested in understanding when, how, and for whom creativity can be beneficial. Previous reviews have demonstrated that creativity research largely ignores the study of its impact on factors that promote health, and well-being among populations of adults. It is unclear, in fact, whether this gap in research also extends to creativity research among young children
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Never Ending Stories? Hebrew Writers' Creative Journey in the Second Half of Life J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Shlomit Aharoni Lir, Liat Ayalon
This qualitative study explored the relationship between creativity, time, age, and the literary world among 16 award-winning Israeli writers in the second half of their lives. Based on data collected through in-depth interviews with the participants, the findings indicate that the writers' creativity in the second half of life was linked to Preservation, Growth, and Decline, leading to four interrelated
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Loose and Tight: Creative Formation but Rigid Use of Nominal Compounds in Conspiracist Texts J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Alessandro Miani, Lonneke van der Plas, Adrian Bangerter
Conspiracy theories (CTs) are spectacular narratives, widely spread, that pose societal threats. We test whether CTs might be linguistically creative products, which would facilitate their transmission and thereby account for their widespread popularity. We analyzed nominal compounds (e.g., mind control, carbon dioxide; N = 1,713,568) from a large corpus of conspiracist and mainstream texts matched
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Creative Subprocess Frequencies and Their Relation to Personal Characteristics and Product Creativity: Insights from a Drawing Task Think Aloud Study J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Gregory T. Boldt, James C. Kaufman
Most research on the creative process has focused on idea generation, and the prevalence and influence of many other creative subprocesses remain poorly understood. To clarify different subprocesses' respective roles in creative work, this study investigated their frequencies and associations with creativity-related personal characteristics and product creativity. Undergraduate students (n = 266) articulated
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Correction to “The Machines Take over: A Comparison of Various Supervised Learning Approaches for Automated Scoring of Divergent Thinking Tasks” J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-12-08
Buczak, P., Huang, H., Forthmann, B., & Doebler, P. (2023). The machines take over: A comparison of various supervised learning approaches for automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 57, 17–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.559 Due to an error in our code for the data preprocessing, we only utilized the word embeddings (WEs) of the last word in sentences instead
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Don't Let it be! Creative Co-regulation and Socially Shared Regulation in a Case Study of the Beatles: Get Back J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Kamila Urban, Marek Urban
Criticism has been raised about creativity researchers narrowing their focus solely to the cognitive processes within individuals. To address these concerns, this case study seeks to expand the scope of creativity research by delving into metacognitive, motivational, and emotional processes involved in collaborative creative problem-solving. The present study applies the concepts of self-regulation
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Mechanisms for Affect Communication from Dance: A Mixed Methods Study J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Megan G. Stutesman, Thalia R. Goldstein
Dance is a multifaceted creative act that has been used to communicate emotions throughout human evolution. Despite this history, there has been no empirical exploration of components of dance that allow it to communicate emotion. We address this with a mixed methods study in which a quantitative study with dance viewers builds upon qualitative findings with dance artists. Qualitative analysis revealed
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Nothing But Stereotypes? Negligible Sex Differences Across Creativity Measures in Science, Arts, and Sports Adolescent High Achievers J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Vlada Repeykova, Teemu Toivainen, Maxim Likhanov, Kim van Broekhoven, Yulia Kovas
Previous research has focused on understanding when, why, and how sex differences in creativity occur, as results vary across samples, measures, and methodologies. In the current study we investigated sex differences in creativity among 984 high achieving adolescents in three expertise areas: Sciences, Arts, and Sports. Eight creativity indicators were analyzed: Alternative uses task (AUT) fluency;
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Creativity and the Cyber Shock: The Ultimate Paradox J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 David Cropley, Arthur Cropley
The “Sputnik Shock” of 1957 led to acceptance of the usefulness of creativity, while the still developing “Cyber Shock” derives from emergence of the apparent production of creativity by CPSs and AI. The ultimate paradox of creativity, which draws on both these shocks, has given rise to the idea of algorithmic creativity. However, the rise of “Society 5.0” means that it is increasingly necessary to
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A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Sedat Sen, Süreyya Yörük
The Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) is a self-reported rating scale that measures creative behaviors in five areas. Despite the vast amount of research on the scale, the internal consistency reliability of K-DOCS scores have not been examined. Specifically, there is no study on the overall reliability coefficients, the variation in the reliability of scores, and reliability induction.
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What Makes an Idea Risky? The Relations between Perceptions of Idea Novelty, Usefulness, and Risk J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Melissa G. Keith, Lindsey M. Freier, Marie Childers, Isabelle Ponce-Pore, Seth Brooks
Individuals and organizations frequently tout creative ideas as a desirable goal, and yet, creative ideas are frequently rejected. Creativity researchers have often suggested that creative ideas are rejected because they are perceived as riskier due to their inherent novelty or originality. Although this assumption is prevalent, we are unaware of any empirical research directly examining the relations
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Re-Creating Higher Education Pedagogy by Making Materiality and Spatiality Matter J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Kerry Chappell, Sharon Witt, Heather Wren, Leonie Hampton, Pam Woods, Lizzie Swinford, Martin Hampton
This study marks a resting point within ongoing explorations of creativity, transdisciplinarity, materiality, and spatiality in Higher Education (HE) pedagogy. It interrogates how different materialities and spatialities shape learning to re-create practices to better respond to societal challenges. This is situated within an imperative to move away from Western-dominated approaches to pedagogy and
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Cultivating Creative Problem-Solving Skills in a Strategic Communication Class: Student Perceptions of a Collaborative Assignment J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Heather J. Hether
Problem-solving is an essential undergraduate learning outcome that also supports students' professional success. The creative problem-solving model (CPS) (Isaksen et al., 2011) facilitates the development of these skills and aligns well with the scope of public relations (PR). The current study investigates student perceptions of an assignment anchored in the CPS model, designed to support their problem-solving
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When Theory Meets Practice: Promoting Participatory Creativity Through World-Building J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Ana Inés Jorge Artigau, Teresa Bosch, Ignacio Trosserro, Florencia Aguilar
This article addresses that there has been a shift in the field of creativity, evidenced in the socio-cultural manifesto written in 2019. This shift invites us to rethink our focus on education. The change proposed here is a change of perspective: stop focusing on the individual and instead consider the whole picture where the individual encounters a context with others and materials to think. The
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Internet Use and Creative Thinking in the Alternative Uses Task J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Mercedes T. Oliva, Benjamin C. Storm
Research has shown that using the Internet to access information can influence memory, metacognition, and how people choose to access information in the future. The current experiment sought to expand this line of work by investigating the impact of using the Internet on creative thinking. A total of 378 participants completed a version of the Alternative Uses Test in which they were asked to list
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Linguistic Relativity in Creative Thought: How Divergent Thinking in Response to Motion Events is Influenced by Satellite- and Verb-Framed Languages J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Thu Anh Mai, Alwin de Rooij
Human creativity and ingenuity partly depend on divergent thinking – the ability to generate many varied, original, and elaborate responses. Prior research has found ample evidence of an effect of cognitive factors, including the organization of semantic networks and associative ability, on divergent thinking. Less is known, however, about how the language we speak shapes this relationship. Specifically
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Creativity in Older Adults: Elucidating the Interactions between Cognitive Functions Underlying Creativity and the Role of Demographic Variables J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Stephanie Alcock, Aline Ferreira-Correia, Kate Cockcroft
Creativity involves generating novel and valuable ideas. While the importance of creative thinking is widely acknowledged, its cognitive basis is poorly understood, particularly in older adults. This study aimed to develop and test an explanatory model of creative thinking to elucidate its underlying cognitive functions in an elderly sample. The role of demographic variables, including age, multilingualism
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Mindfulness Makes Employees More Creative? The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital and Creative Process Engagement J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Xiao Li, Chen Zhang, Changde Li, Wendian Shi, Feng Wang, Qiangqiang Wang, Yanan Zhang
Previous studies on mindfulness and creativity have focused on the beneficial effects of mindfulness on concentration. However, few have explored this from the perspective of psychological resources. Based on resource conservation theory, this study focuses on the positive psychological functions of mindfulness and how they complement the psychological resources depleted in the performance of creativity
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An Experimental Comparison of Analogy Representation Effects on Creative Outcomes J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Georgios Koronis, Hernan Casakin, Arlindo Silva
This study delved into the structuring of design briefs and investigated the impact of employing visual analogies compared to text analogies. We aimed to contribute to the growing body of research investigating the role of analogies in design problem-solving. To do this, we conducted a controlled experiment at a university with 135 undergraduate students exploring analogical reasoning under various
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“We Have a Voice. We Exist.”: Value of Basic Needs Satisfaction for Well-Being and Goal Development in Inclusive Theater Spaces for Young People J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Amanda Ferrell, Maruša Levstek, Robin Banerjee
Creative arts programs have potential for promoting psychological well-being amongst young people. The present research used a mixed-methods approach to address the mechanisms involved in the well-being of marginalized young people engaged in creative arts participation, based on self-determination theory. A preliminary quantitative analysis investigated the levels of basic needs satisfaction (BNS)
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Divergent Motor Learning Programs Improve Motor and Figural Creativity in University Sports Students J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Christian Büning, Hedda Lausberg
Based on studies reporting a link between creative thinking and motor creativity, we investigate whether training motor creativity also positively influences creative thinking. In a longitudinal study design spanning two-and-a-half years, we analyzed the relationships between the development of motor and figural creativity based on two distinct programs: a convergent-oriented sport study program (COSP)
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Changes in Positive and Negative Affect during Creative Process Engagement J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Tamara Montag-Smit, Melissa G. Keith
The present research examines how creative process engagement (information gathering, idea generation, idea evaluation, and idea pitch) influences the affective states of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). Drawing from motivation theory and research, we proposed that creative process behaviors that are more autonomous and less constrained will increase positive affect. Additionally, creative
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Improvisation Exercises Increase Negotiators' Divergent Thinking, and Sometimes their Negotiation Outcomes J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Fieke Harinck, Loes Dooren
Two studies investigated the effect of a short improvisation intervention (theatrical improvisation in Study 1, musical improvisation in Study 2) on negotiation processes and outcomes. The expectation was that an improvisation exercise, compared to a control condition in which participants engaged in jigsaw puzzling, would result in better negotiation agreements via higher levels of divergent thinking
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Curiosity Causes Creativity? Revealing the Reinforcement Circle between State Curiosity and Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Jie (Yonas) Ma, Wenyuan Wei
Curiosity has long been extolled as a seed for employee creativity. This causality is plausible when considering curiosity as a stable trait. However, curiosity can also oscillate as a transitory state, thus complicating the causal sequence between such state curiosity and creativity. To clarify the causal ordering and achieve a refined understanding of what role state curiosity plays in the creative
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Gender and Artistic Creativity: The Perspectives and Experiences of Eminent Female Visual Artists J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Katrina Ginis, Sandra Elizabeth Stewart, Leonie Kronborg
The historically male-dominated discourse encompassing artistic creativity has often failed to acknowledge the voices and contributions of women. Female artists continue to face barriers in terms of accessing opportunities, attaining positions of prominence, and earning potential, in comparison with their male counterparts. This inequality is deleterious to female artists and society. Therefore, it
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Innovation in Virtual Teams: The Critical Role of Anonymity across Divergent and Convergent Thinking Processes J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Jonali Baruah, Keesha Green
This experimental research investigates the creativity of anonymous video-based groups through a series of collaborative divergent and convergent thinking stages of innovation. A sample of 113 undergraduate students participated in small groups of three or four to complete a creative problem-solving task in either anonymous or identified conditions. The findings revealed that although anonymity did
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How Does a Stone Carver Create? A Participatory Case Study J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Marion Botella, Léonore Robieux, Benjamin Frantz
Art and design involve divergent creative processes. Design is a more constrained domain than art. While creativity in some specific domains, such as painting, sculpture, and music, has been widely studied, some have as yet been little explored. One example is stone carving. What characterizes stone carving, as a creative occupation? What is a stone carver's creative process? We set out to answer these
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How Crisis May Generate and Sustain Creative Cycles: The Role of Problem Persistence J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Ana Luisa Villanova, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arne Carlsen
We performed an inductive study to advance theory on how a crisis can inspire individuals to be persistently creative in successive cycles. We draw from rich data of 17 volunteer projects in the Tech4Covid movement, a Portuguese organization of entrepreneurs who gathered online to develop digital solutions to help society during the COVID-19 pandemic. This empirical context is uniquely suited to study
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Who Benefits from Creative Mindsets?: The Effects of Domain-Specific Knowledge on the Relationships Between Creative Mindsets and Creative Performance in the Context of ESL/EAL Writing J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Enikő Orsolya Bereczki, Peter Nagy
In the past decade, creativity researchers have attempted to explore how creative fixed and growth mindsets shape creative outcomes and effort. Previous studies found a strong association between creative mindsets and self-perceptions. However, research on the relationship between creative mindsets and performance led to mixed results. In an attempt to explain these confusing findings, many advocated
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Artificial Intelligence Creates Art? An Experimental Investigation of Value and Creativity Perceptions J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Francisco Tigre Moura, Chiara Castrucci, Clare Hindley
This paper presents a study analyzing the perception of artistic products created by or with the support of artificial intelligence (AI). The research builds on previous studies revealing that the output of artificial creativity processes can indeed rival human-made products, satisfy consumer expectations, and derive enjoyment. However, in contrast to earlier works, the study focuses on the awareness
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Play and Scientific Creativity: A Critical Review and an Integrative Theoretical Framework J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Xiangyou Shen
Emerging empirical evidence supports play's potential to stimulate and foster scientific creativity. Focusing on how play relates to scientific creativity in adulthood, this review synthesizes the current state of knowledge in four areas: the play element in scientific research, the playfulness of scientists, mechanisms through which play affects scientific creativity, and environmental factors key
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Artificial Intelligence & Creativity: A Manifesto for Collaboration J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Florent Vinchon, Todd Lubart, Sabrina Bartolotta, Valentin Gironnay, Marion Botella, Samira Bourgeois-Bougrine, Jean-Marie Burkhardt, Nathalie Bonnardel, Giovanni Emanuele Corazza, Vlad Glăveanu, Michael Hanchett Hanson, Zorana Ivcevic, Maciej Karwowski, James C. Kaufman, Takeshi Okada, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Andrea Gaggioli
With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), the field of creativity faces new opportunities and challenges. This manifesto explores several scenarios of human–machine collaboration on creative tasks and proposes “fundamental laws of generative AI” to reinforce the responsible and ethical use of AI in the creativity field. Four scenarios are proposed and discussed: “Co-Cre-AI-tion,” “Organic,”
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What Makes Children's Responses to Creativity Assessments Difficult to Judge Reliably? J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Denis Dumas, Selcuk Acar, Kelly Berthiaume, Peter Organisciak, David Eby, Katalin Grajzel, Theadora Vlaamster, Michele Newman, Melanie Carrera
Open-ended verbal creativity assessments are commonly administered in psychological research and in educational practice to elementary-aged children. Children's responses are then typically rated by teams of judges who are trained to identify original ideas, hopefully with a degree of inter-rater agreement. Even in cases where the judges are reliable, some residual disagreement on the originality of
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Children as Earth Authors: A Story of Creativity, Metacognition and Motivation among Indian School Children J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Aneesa Jamal, Abubakr Mohammed Jamal, Sanitah Mohd Yusof
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is inherently creative. But little is known about children's process of creativity during a PBL experience or how PBL supports the creative process. This qualitative study explores 14 Indian schoolchildren's creative journey during a book-authoring PBL program. Transcripts for the structured interviews, assignments, driving questions, and journals were analyzed for patterns
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One “C” to Rule Them All: The Psychology of Creativity Needs to Refocus on Behaviors J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Eric Bonetto, Thomas Arciszewski
The 7C's of creativity (Lubart, 2017) summarize scientific contributions in seven categories as a function of their main object of interest in relation to creativity: Creators, Creating, Collaboration, Context, Creations, Consumption, and Curricula. In its attempt to grasp these different dimensions of the phenomenon of creativity, the psychology of creativity seems to have lost sight of its main object
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Making Learning Visible: Observable Correlates of the Aha! Moment when Moving from Surface to Deep Thinking J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Jay Berckley, John Hattie
The purpose of this study is to provide reliable evidence of the observable correlates of the Aha! moment and what this means for moving from surface to deep thinking. The study analyses facial expressions and body language from video recordings of students solving problems, followed by interviews, focus groups, and surveys. The problem-solving involved asking students to solve word problems to generate
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Emotional Expression, Perception, and Induction in Music and Dance: Considering Ecologically Valid Intentions J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Marco Susino
Cognitive and behavioral studies ranging from biomechanics to motor functions and neural mirroring explorations have extensively investigated the communication of emotions in music and dance. Recognized for their ability to convey and elicit emotions, various studies aim to validate the extent to which auditory expressive cues and embodied expressive movements are able to convey emotions. However,
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Creativity and Flow: Not a Simple Relationship J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Paula Thomson, S. Victoria Jaque
In this study, flow, both dispositional and state, and movement-based creative processing were investigated in a group of pre-professional and professional dancers (N = 288) who were involved in the creation, rehearsal, and performance of a new dance work(s). Dance is both movement-based and group-based. The Experience of Creativity Questionnaire and Dispositional Flow Scale were administered 2 weeks
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Inner Speaking and Uncertainty during Idea Generation J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Alwin de Rooij
Inner speaking, the production, and experience of verbal language without any audible vocalization is a critical component of inner experience and imagination. The role that (un)certainty plays in idea generation might explain the unique ways in which idea generation is characterized and affected by different types of inner speech. To explore this open problem, an experiment with a within-subject design
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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and Intentionality: The Need for a Paradigm Shift J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Francisco Tigre Moura
Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to generate creative and valuable outputs is far from a novel concept (Boden, 1998; Cope, 1989). However, only in recent years have we witnessed large scale release and adoption of AI tools capable of generating high-quality content in written, image, video, and sound formats (Anantrasirichai & Bull, 2022). The fast adoption of these tools, and the autonomous nature
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Nurturing Group Creativity in Mathematical Modeling through Role Playing J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Jung Hye-Yun, Lee Kyeong-Hwa
Pedagogical strategies for nurturing group creativity in school mathematics have remained largely unexplored despite their significance. In this study, we explored the use of role playing in mathematical modeling activities for nurturing group creativity in a 9th-grade mathematics class in Korea. We described the theoretical bases and types of roles that nurture group creativity while examining the
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The Interplay between Individuals and Teams in Producing Original Work J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Erwan Bellard, Nathalie Delobbe
This study investigates the assumption that teams are the basic unit for creativity and innovation in organizations. Through a quasi-experiment conducted with 548 professionals participating in a training course on management, the study first examines whether individuals opt for intrinsically more creative solutions than groups in a music composition task. Secondly, it explores whether alternating
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Depressive Symptoms are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan, Christian Rominger, Andreas Fink
Depressed mood has attracted little attention in creativity research. By comparison, psychotherapeutic studies have repeatedly associated depressive symptomatology with increased revenge ideation. Combining creativity and retaliatory ideation, the present study examined whether self-reported subclinical depressive symptoms are linked to malevolent creativity – creativity used for the purpose of damaging
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Let's Just See What Happens: A Qualitative Case Study of Risk and Uncertainty in the Creative Process J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Wendy Ross, Mike Groves
Research in creativity often measures creative potential: the number of ideas which can be generated, or the way a novel thought appears in the mind of the thinker. There is much less emphasis on creative thought during the realization of this potential. This paper uses focused cognitive ethnography to explore how creativity is manifest in a complex environment. We report four main findings: that creativity
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Tell Me What To Do Not How To Do It: Influence of Creative Outcome and Process Goals on Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Melissa G. Keith, Carolyn M. Jagacinski
The current research examines the utility of using creative outcome goals and process goals to enhance creativity. We propose that although creative outcome goals are likely to have a direct positive impact on creativity, the relationship between process goals and creativity is mediated by creative process engagement. Results from an experimental study demonstrated that creative outcome goals, particularly
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The Relationship between Creativity and Attitudes toward Intergroup Conflicts J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Nardine Fahoum, Hadas Pick, Shenhav Rainer, Dana Zoabi, Shihui Han, Simone Shamay-Tsoory
The maintenance and escalation of intergroup conflicts have been explained by negative emotions and attitudes toward outgroup members. Considering that creative cognition entails the ability to generate diverse and new ideas, we sought to investigate whether creativity may contribute to overcoming negative emotions and attitudes associated with intergroup conflicts. Therefore, we examined whether individual
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Ambiguity Tolerance Can Improve through Poetry Appreciation and Creation J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Jimpei Hitsuwari, Michio Nomura
Ambiguity tolerance is an individual trait indicating low aversion to ambiguity that is closely related to creativity. Appreciation and discussion of art are known to improve ambiguity tolerance, but the effects of appreciation and discussion have not been studied separately. In this study, we used haiku poetry with the characteristic of ambiguity to confirm the effect of appreciation by separating
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Daoism, Novelty, and Usefulness: A Philosophical Exploration of Creativity J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Charlene Tan
This paper elucidates a Daoist perspective of creativity by focusing on novelty and usefulness. Drawing on the thought of Zhuangzi, it is noted that he advocates original and unorthodox views by challenging social norms and traditional practices. He also questions the prevailing notions and assumptions concerning the usefulness and uselessness of things and people. To liberate humans from conventional
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Divergent and Convergent Thinking across the Schoolyears: A Dynamic Perspective on Creativity Development J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Philippe Eon Duval, Aurélien Frick, Solange Denervaud
Creative thinking is critical to overcome many daily life situations. As such, there has been a growing interest on how creative thinking develops during childhood. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms driving its development. Indeed, almost all research has focused on divergent thinking, leaving aside convergent thinking, and did not thoroughly investigate how internal and/or external
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The Embodied Journey of an Idea: An Exploration of Movement Creativity in Circus Arts J. Creat. Behav. (IF 3.233) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Veronique Richard, Vlad Glăveanu, Patrice Aubertin
Knowledge about embodied creativity is in its infancy. In circus arts, performers are nowadays ‘owning’ their creativity making this performance domain fruitful to study embodied creativity. Building on socio-cultural creativity perspectives and radical embodied cognitive sciences, the current study aimed at exploring movement creativity by tracking the journey of embodied ideas in a Circus School