Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-09-08DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100090
Julie Vaisarova, Lezxandra Saguid, Anne S. Kupfer, Helena S. Goldbaum, Kelsey Lucca
{"title":"Exploring the creativity-curiosity link in early childhood","authors":"Julie Vaisarova, Lezxandra Saguid, Anne S. Kupfer, Helena S. Goldbaum, Kelsey Lucca","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Childhood is a pinnacle of both creativity and curiosity, and although these constructs theoretically overlap, few studies have probed whether they are directly related in childhood or driven by similar cognitive and emotional processes. Across two online Zoom sessions, 36 3- to 6 year-olds completed six tasks measuring diverse manifestations of curiosity and creativity, as well as tasks assessing vocabulary, self-esteem, and executive function. Caregivers also completed questionnaires regarding their children's curiosity. Only two significant, positive correlations were found between indices of creativity and curiosity: between originality of ideas (creativity) and breadth of exploration (curiosity), and between creativity on a production-based task and parent-reported breadth of exploration (curiosity). Further, the two constructs were predicted by different child characteristics. Age was the main predictor of creativity; originality of children's ideas in two divergent thinking tasks decreased with age, while fluency and holistic ratings of production-based tasks increased. Self-esteem, in turn, was the strongest predictor of curiosity, correlating positively with several subtypes of parent-reported curiosity. The results of this exploratory study suggest creativity and curiosity may not be as closely linked in childhood as some have proposed, and that pinpointing their relations will require careful attention to the individual components and expressions of each construct.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 3","pages":"Article 100090"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000165/pdfft?md5=c95c11c15995fbb00d63318b8a3dd752&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000165-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142238515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100079
Zorana Ivcevic , Mike Grandinetti
{"title":"Artificial intelligence as a tool for creativity","authors":"Zorana Ivcevic , Mike Grandinetti","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The release of ChatGPT has sparked quite a bit of interest about creativity in the context of artificial intelligence (AI), with theorizing and empirical research asking questions about the nature of creativity (both human and artificially-produced) and the valuing of work produced by humans and artificial means. In this article, we discuss one specific scenario identified in the creativity research community – co-creation, or use of AI as a tool that could augment human creativity. We present emerging research relevant to how AI can be used on a continuum of four levels of creativity, from mini-c/creativity in learning to little-c/everyday creativity to Pro-C/professional creativity and Big-C/eminent creativity. In this discussion, AI is defined broadly, not to include only large language models (e.g., ChatGPT) which might approach general AI, but also other computer programs that perform tasks typically understood as requiring human intelligence. We conclude by considering future directions for research on AI as a tool for creativity across the four c's.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100079"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000050/pdfft?md5=be2e837b121891be4218af0dfac7ddee&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000050-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139713862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100077
J.Y. Tsao , R.G. Abbott , D.C. Crowder , S. Desai , R.P.M. Dingreville , J.E. Fowler , A. Garland , P.P. Iyer , J. Murdock , S.T. Steinmetz , K.A. Yarritu , C.M. Johnson , D.J. Stracuzzi
{"title":"AI for Technoscientific Discovery: A Human-Inspired Architecture","authors":"J.Y. Tsao , R.G. Abbott , D.C. Crowder , S. Desai , R.P.M. Dingreville , J.E. Fowler , A. Garland , P.P. Iyer , J. Murdock , S.T. Steinmetz , K.A. Yarritu , C.M. Johnson , D.J. Stracuzzi","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present a high-level architecture for how artificial intelligences might advance and accumulate scientific and technological knowledge, inspired by emerging perspectives on how human intelligences advance and accumulate such knowledge. Agents advance knowledge by exercising a technoscientific method—an interacting combination of scientific and engineering methods. The technoscientific method maximizes a quantity we call “useful learning” via more-creative implausible utility (including the “aha!” moments of discovery), as well as via less-creative plausible utility. Society accumulates the knowledge advanced by agents so that other agents can incorporate and build on to make further advances. The proposed architecture is challenging but potentially complete: its execution might in principle enable artificial intelligences to advance and accumulate an equivalent of the full range of human scientific and technological knowledge.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100077"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000037/pdfft?md5=2f4a56d30e4116df689e5f647153396e&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000037-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139731518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-03-16DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100084
Philon Nguyen
{"title":"Naturalistic and non-naturalistic renderings in new music","authors":"Philon Nguyen","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>If in paintings or fiction, naturalistic (e.g. being close to reality) and non-naturalistic (e.g. unrealness) renderings may seem trivial to define, what do naturalistic or non-naturalistic renderings sound like in music? I discuss the uncertainties related to these notions in the context of New Music and the arts in general. The notions of JNH (Just Noticeably Human) and JNI (Just Noticeably Inhuman) developed by composer Steven Takasugi are also discussed in this context. More specifically, my discussion arose from a concert given in the Black Box at Concordia University on November 23 2023, where three pieces composed by Canadian composer Philon Nguyen using Artificial Intelligence (AI), with varying degrees of human intervention, were performed by 8 musicians and a conductor. The AI was also developed by the composer. Following the performance and rehearsals, different aspects of machine generated materials (in the sense of Adorno's <em>Materialtheorie</em>) were discussed with the musicians and researchers involved in the project. I discuss these in this paper and provide a simple tentative quantitative investigation of the differences between human performances (meant to humanize machine generated materials) and digital AI simulations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100084"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000104/pdfft?md5=fdf1fd2ad118b5bc6fc764353eddcd78&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000104-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140269401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100080
Katherine O'Toole, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
{"title":"Extending human creativity with AI","authors":"Katherine O'Toole, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The development of generative AI has led to novel ways that technology can be integrated into creative activities. However, this has also raised concerns about how human creators will be affected, and what impact it may have on creative industries. As a result, there has been research into how we can design AI tools that work with human creators, rather than replacing them. In this paper we review approaches utilized to build AI tools that facilitate human creativity and allow users to engage fully and authentically in the creative process. These include leveraging AI models to help us shed light on elements of the creative process, building interfaces that encourage exploration of ideas, and designing technological affordances that can support the development of new creative practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100080"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000062/pdfft?md5=7a3d3d0f3371c6a0168f3c07375089ac&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000062-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139748863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100085
Mary Kay Culpepper, David Gauntlett
{"title":"The construction of everyday creative identity","authors":"Mary Kay Culpepper, David Gauntlett","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Exploring everyday creative identity is important because everyday creators are often recognized as problem solvers whose fluency and flexibility influences those in their networks. Researchers who study the nuanced circumstances that support everyday creative identity call for further study. Our model of everyday creative identity elaborates on existing theories with a focus on people who make things just because they want to. We predicated the model on qualitative interviews with everyday creators in England and the U.S. who discussed how they came to feel creative, speaking after they worked at their pursuits. Our analyses uncovered themes incorporating creative agency and impulse, contextual creative affordances, and sense of creative accomplishment as they feed into creative identity and self-efficacy. The resulting recursive model illustrates how acts of making come together to underscore everyday creative identity. We maintain that this gradation in understanding the formation of everyday creative identity is crucial in supporting everyday creators and those whose creative identities have yet to be formed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100085"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000116/pdfft?md5=78d8bbe5cedbfcd0dcfc14ba108277f1&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000116-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140638879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100081
Marko Müller, Christian Montag
{"title":"Disentangling the Link between Creativity and Technology Use: Individual Differences in Smartphone and Social Media (Over)Use","authors":"Marko Müller, Christian Montag","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100081","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The recent years have seen a dramatic surge in the use of smartphones and social media, with the latter likely to be a driving force for smartphone use disorder (SmUD) tendencies. Smartphones are popularly perceived to suppress creativity by occupying moments of free thought and stealing time from developing new ideas. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate by providing a concise overview of contradictory literature findings, followed by presenting new data. In a sample of <em>N</em> = 509, self-rated creative self-efficacy (CSE) was inversely related to SmUD tendencies and, in subgroups of different sizes, to messenger overuse as well as to the frequency of Facebook and Instagram use. Notably, there was no such negative relationship between technology (over)use variables and the quantity of ideas (fluency) generated in divergent thinking (DT) tasks. However, the subjective and objective estimates of creative potential were positively associated. A heterogeneity analysis, in which the sample was split by sex, age, population group, and device used to participate in the online survey, uncovered varying correlations between technology (over)use and objectively measured creativity within some subsample pairs. Notable findings included a positive correlation between idea richness and time spent online with a stationary device (laptop/PC), among women, students, and those who participated in the online survey with non-mobile devices. Conversely, lower fluency scores were associated with more frequent Instagram use among men, and higher WhatsApp use among older generations. Overall, this study reveals a multifaceted relationship between creativity and media use that challenges prevailing media and public perceptions, with the mostly small effect sizes suggesting negligible connections.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100081"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000074/pdfft?md5=bdc64c7fc09e8d63650c4bf7423f2568&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000074-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139892503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A task-oriented framework for generative AI in design","authors":"Lara Sucupira Furtado , Jorge Barbosa Soares , Vasco Furtado","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Design disciplines such as Architecture, Urban Planning, Engineering and Product Design has been a longstanding pursuit, with Generative AI (GAI) ushering in a new era of possibilities. The research presented here explores how GAI can enhance creativity and assist Design practitioners with tasks to create products such as, but not limited to, renderings, concepts, construction techniques, materials, data analytics or maps. We apply a framework of combinational, exploratory and transformational creativity to organize how recent advancements in GAI can support each creative category. We propose a conceptual framework of GAI towards transformational creativity, and identify real-world examples to demonstrate GAI's impact, such as transforming sketches into detailed renders, facilitating real-time 3D model generation, predicting trends through analytics and creating images or reports via text prompts. Our work envisions a future where GAI becomes a real-time collaborator to complete certain automated tasks while liberating Designers to focus on transformational innovation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100086"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000128/pdfft?md5=2b432021669fb50edba4410948fef18a&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000128-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140537099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100087
Eline Aya Hattori, Mayu Yamakawa, Kazuhisa Miwa
{"title":"Human bias in evaluating AI product creativity","authors":"Eline Aya Hattori, Mayu Yamakawa, Kazuhisa Miwa","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigated the evaluation behavior of products generated by artificial intelligence (AI) by manipulating the creativity of rating stimuli according to their high and low novelty and usefulness. In addition, we analyzed the effect of perception of the generative AI on creativity ratings. We found a bias toward lower creativity ratings only for highly useful products when they were identified as AI-generated, and this bias was particularly strong for individuals with greater perceived threat from the generative AI. Our research highlights the importance of product attribute quality and producer identity in creativity ratings, and provides implications for the integration of AI into creative industries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100087"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S271337452400013X/pdfft?md5=1ea4c1ef285e16c23b8eec6ec70ad888&pid=1-s2.0-S271337452400013X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140550338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of CreativityPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-03-09DOI: 10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100083
Ducel Jean-Berluche
{"title":"Creative expression and mental health","authors":"Ducel Jean-Berluche","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review examines the transformative impact creativity has on mental health. Creative expression has the potential to promote the cognitive, emotional, physical, and social well-being of individuals of all ages. Drawing from various scholarly sources, including empirical studies and theoretical frameworks, this review synthesizes the current knowledge on the relationship between creativity and mental health. The review elucidates how creativity influences emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, and social connectedness. Through a detailed literature search utilizing databases such as PubMed, PsycINFO, PsychARTICLES, and Google Scholar, research findings from articles across different creative activities, including visual arts, writing, music, and crafts/DIY projects, are discussed in conjunction with reported benefits on mental health and well-being. Furthermore, the review discusses the practical implications of the positive link between creative expression and mental health, emphasizing the relevance of this for therapeutic interventions and community programs. The findings highlight the need for further research to explore the underlying mechanisms, long-term effects, and potential cultural variations of the creativity-mental health relationship. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the positive influences, inviting researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to harness the healing power of creative expression.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 100083"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374524000098/pdfft?md5=f03fd31ec59021ccce7ea386bafb4e4c&pid=1-s2.0-S2713374524000098-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140103817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}