Some Effects of Sex and Culture on Creativity, No Effect of Incubation

IF 1.5 4区心理学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Empirical Studies of the Arts Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI:10.1177/02762374231217638

Nastaran Kazemian, Khatereh Borhani, Soroosh Golbabaei, Julia F. Christensen

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Abstract

Results remain mixed regarding the effects of incubation tasks on divergent thinking, a type of creativity, generally assessed via the Unusual Uses Task (UUT). Using a within-subjects design, we compared 64 participants’ performance on the UUT, after four different incubation tasks: copy a simple painting, copy a complex painting, 0-back-task, and rest. We hypothesized that an arts-related activity during incubation (here: copy a painting) would boost subsequent creativity. Five different creativity scores were computed from the raw UUT data, and we provide a step-by-step guide for how to compute these: fluency, flexibility, originality, subjective creativity, and usefulness. Creativity was only modulated by sex; women outperformed men on creative fluency. No other variables, nor the incubations, modulated any of participants’ creativity scores. A within-group comparison showed that the unusual uses of our all-Iranian participants were more useful than unique, echoing previous work suggesting differences between Eastern and Western conceptions of creativity.

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性别和文化对创造力的一些影响，孵化无影响

关于培养任务对发散思维（一种创造力，通常通过 "不寻常用途任务"（UUT）进行评估）的影响，研究结果仍然不一。我们采用被试内设计，比较了 64 名参与者在完成四项不同的培养任务（临摹一幅简单的画、临摹一幅复杂的画、0-back-task 和休息）后在 UUT 上的表现。我们假设，在熏陶期间进行与艺术相关的活动（这里指的是临摹一幅画）会提高随后的创造力。我们根据 UUT 原始数据计算出了五种不同的创造力得分，并提供了计算这些得分的步骤指南：流畅性、灵活性、独创性、主观创造力和实用性。创造力只受性别影响；女性在创造力的流畅性方面优于男性。其他变量和 "孵化 "均不影响参与者的创造力得分。组内比较显示，我们所有伊朗参与者的不寻常用途更有用而非独特，这与之前的研究结果一致，表明东西方对创造力的概念存在差异。

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期刊介绍： Empirical Studies of the Arts (ART) aims to be an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical and empirical studies of aesthetics, creativity, and all of the arts. It spans anthropological, psychological, neuroscientific, semiotic, and sociological studies of the creation, perception, and appreciation of literary, musical, visual and other art forms. Whether you are an active researcher or an interested bystander, Empirical Studies of the Arts keeps you up to date on the latest trends in scientific studies of the arts.