Creativity in an Affective Context

IF 3.9 3区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

European Psychologist Pub Date : 2021-12-10 DOI:10.1027/1016-9040/a000448

C. Perchtold-Stefan, I. Papousek, C. Rominger, A. Fink

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Abstract

Abstract. Everyday life often requires considerable creativity in dealing with challenging circumstances. This implies that creativity regularly operates in an affective context, however, this “C” of creativity is rarely addressed in contemporary research. In this brief review article, we address some important milestones in this nascent field of research. Starting with early accounts on emotional creativity, we discuss seminal research intertwining creativity and mood states, and finally introduce two recent developments in this field: reappraisal inventiveness as the capacity to generate manifold cognitive reappraisals for aversive situations, and malevolent creativity as creative ideation intentionally used to damage others. We discuss the conceptual origins of reappraisal inventiveness and malevolent creativity and provide an extensive review of past behavioral and neuroscientific findings regarding these differently motivated instances of affective creativity. Additionally, novel pilot findings and prospects on both lines of research will be provided, which may help to advance investigations into more real-world applications of creative cognition.

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情感情境下的创造力

摘要日常生活往往需要相当的创造力来应对具有挑战性的环境。这意味着创造力经常在情感环境中运作，然而，创造力的“C”在当代研究中很少得到解决。在这篇简短的综述文章中，我们讨论了这一新兴研究领域的一些重要里程碑。从早期关于情绪创造力的描述开始，我们讨论了将创造力和情绪状态交织在一起的开创性研究，最后介绍了该领域的两个最新发展:重新评估创造力，作为对厌恶情况产生多种认知重新评估的能力，以及恶意创造力，作为故意用来伤害他人的创造性想法。我们讨论了重新评估创造力和恶意创造力的概念起源，并对过去关于这些不同动机的情感创造力实例的行为和神经科学发现进行了广泛的回顾。此外，还将提供两方面研究的新试点发现和前景，这可能有助于推进创造性认知在更多现实世界中的应用研究。

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European Psychologist PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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