{"title":"A Time for Creativity Too? How Past-Versus Future-Oriented Thinking Facilitates Creativity","authors":"Brandon Koh, Angela K.-y. Leung","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Future-oriented thinking appears conducive to fostering creativity. However, various unreconciled theoretical accounts have been proposed, and whether past-oriented thinking facilitates creativity has been under-explored. By leveraging differing expectations associated with past-oriented thinking, this paper compares the (1) creativity-facilitating schemas, (2) construal level theory, and (3) conceptual combination hypotheses of how time-oriented thought relates to creativity. This research conducted two experiments simultaneously investigating past-, present-, and future-oriented thought (Study 1, <i>N</i> = 258) and inducing the juxtaposition of past and present time frames (Study 2, <i>N</i> = 205). Results replicated and supported the creativity-facilitating schema hypothesis. Furthermore, the current research revealed an interesting possibility that the schema and construal level explanations operate antagonistically to create a suppression effect in the link between past-oriented thinking and creativity. This research provides insights into how time-oriented thought impacts creativity and calls attention to some nuanced directions that future research could address.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Role of Response Time in Item Response Theory: Rethinking the PISA 2022 Creative Thinking Assessment","authors":"Lihong Xie, Xiaowen Liu","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the potential of response time-item response theory (RT-IRT) models to enhance creative thinking (CT) measurement in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022, which employs traditional IRT models (2PL and generalized partial credit) excluding response time (RT). Given traditional IRT's limitations in capturing cognitive processes, we explored how numerous advanced IRT models, particularly those that incorporate RT as valuable information, have been developed for model testing and comparison for large-scale assessment. In addition, we discuss the critical role of RT as demonstrated in the research literature, linking it to key aspects of creativity. We also explore the possibilities of connecting two types of RTs (i.e., the total time spent on task completion and the time from start to first action spent on each task) to patterns in creative performance across domains and stages, using RT-IRT models. Benefits and types of RT-IRT models (e.g., joint, diffusion, mixture) are further examined as they integrate RT to model speed–accuracy trade-offs, detect aberrant response behaviors, and enhance result interpretability by reflecting engagement and creative processes. Lastly, we propose RT-IRT models to leverage PISA 2022's RT data and provide process-oriented insights, improve ability estimates, and potentially prevent misclassification of spontaneously creative responses as careless ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145224475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Camilleri, Ruth Williams, Richard James Thomas Sallis, Vlad Petre Glăveanu
{"title":"Creativity in BMX: What Is It, What Does It Look Like, and What Contributes to It?","authors":"David Camilleri, Ruth Williams, Richard James Thomas Sallis, Vlad Petre Glăveanu","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores the multifaceted nature of creativity in BMX riding by examining how riders interact with their physical and social environments to produce innovative movements and trail designs. Grounded in Perspective-Affordance Theory and the principles of embodied cognition, the research highlights that creativity in BMX emerges from the interplay between an individual's shifting perspective and the environmental affordances available in urban and natural settings. Semi-structured interviews with 26 BMX riders reveal that creativity in BMX is embedded in physical action, community dynamics, and the negotiation of risk and failure. The findings underscore the importance of socio-cultural support and individual risk-taking in shaping creative practices, offering new insights into how embodied experiences and environmental interactions drive creativity in action sports.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the Alignment Between PISA 2022 Creative Thinking Scoring Rubric and Creativity Theory: A Validity Framework Perspective","authors":"Carolina Cuesta-Hincapie, Sandra Liliana Camargo Salamanca","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Creative thinking is a fundamental skill for addressing the challenges of the 21st century, fostering innovation, and contributing to social, economic, and cultural development. Recognizing its significance, the OECD introduced creative thinking as part of the PISA 2022 assessment. This assessment evaluates students' capacity to generate, evaluate, and improve ideas across various domains, including written and visual expression, social problem-solving, and scientific problem-solving. The scoring criteria for the PISA creative thinking emphasize appropriateness and originality, yet questions arise regarding aligning these operational definitions and broader creativity theories. This article discusses the alignment between creativity theory and the creative thinking PISA 2022 assessment framework, highlighting potential misalignments in the scoring rubrics that may impact the validity of inferences drawn from the data. It also addresses contextual biases inherent in scoring mechanisms and the implications for assessing creative thinking.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145111161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncovering Behavioral Patterns in Creative Thinking: Utilizing and Interpreting PISA 2022 Process Data","authors":"Juyeon Lee, Sue Hyeon Paek, Yoonsun Jang","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Examining cognitive dynamics in the creative process is crucial for advancing creative theories and creativity education but has been historically understudied due to the technical challenges in collecting fine-grained data underlying cognitive processes. The PISA 2022 Creative Thinking assessment has the potential to address this limitation by offering rich, technology-based process data that capture cognitive and affective dynamics. To explore this potential, we outlined key topics and theoretical foundations in creativity research related to process data, followed by an illustrative example demonstrating how process data can illuminate creative thinking processes simply using descriptive statistics of released items. Furthermore, we delineated model-based approaches, including data mining techniques and extended item response theory models, to uncover various behavioral patterns in creative thinking through integrating process data and item responses together. While PISA 2022 process data provide valuable insights into creative thinking, strong theoretical support is recommended to compute new variables from original process data metrics and choose appropriate statistical methodologies for nuanced and valid interpretations. We further discussed challenges and recommendations for utilizing the PISA 2022 CT process data.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145111160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rafael Segundo-Marcos, Verónica López Fernández, María Teresa Daza González
{"title":"Creative Thinking and Lexical Richness Development and the Impact of Cooperative Learning Over Time","authors":"Rafael Segundo-Marcos, Verónica López Fernández, María Teresa Daza González","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores developmental changes in creative thinking and lexical richness (measured through lexical density and diversity) during late childhood and examines how different classroom methodologies may be associated with these changes. Data were collected from 57 students at three time points (between 5th and 6th grades of primary school), allowing us to track the longitudinal development of both variables. Participants were divided into two groups based on their learning methodologies: Cooperative Learning (CL) and Individual Learning (IL). In the CL group, students engaged in structured cooperative activities centered on problem-solving and open-ended tasks in Language, Mathematics, and Arts, fostering peer interaction and idea exchange. A repeated measures ANOVA revealed significant age-related improvements in creative thinking and lexical richness, with the CL group showing greater gains, particularly at the second (T2) and third (T3) assessments. Correlation analyses showed a strong positive relationship between lexical richness and creative thinking, suggesting that a richer vocabulary may facilitate the generation of more complex and innovative ideas. These findings highlight the value of cooperative learning in promoting both creative and linguistic development during late childhood and underscore the need for further research into how classroom practices influence cognitive growth in primary education.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Context Awareness in PISA Creativity Data","authors":"Hansika Kapoor, Anirudh Tagat","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>For the first time in 2022, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) assessed creative thinking skills among 15-year-old students in 64 countries. The inclusion of measures assessing the generation and evaluation of new and diverse ideas is a welcome step, especially as PISA also includes data on academic performance. Early results from descriptive analysis indicate that girls outperform boys in creative thinking, and better socioeconomic conditions foster improved creative output. This commentary will examine whether these findings from PISA can be generalized to a broader set of countries, relying on cultural differences in creativity as well as education systems. This is to mitigate against the dangers of overgeneralizing or overinterpreting PISA creativity, resulting in the absence of context awareness. Specifically, we will discuss (a) how the characteristics of PISA nations may be systematically different from non-participating nations, along Hofstede's cultural dimensions or cultural distance metrics, (b) how PISA results can be merged with other existing country-level datasets to enrich interpretations, (c) implications of broad PISA results against the background of national-level metrics like gender gap or human development indices, and (d) future directions for valuable large-scale datasets such as PISA.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PISA 2022 Creative Thinking Assessment: A Landmark Opportunity for School and System Leaders to Put Creativity at the Heart of Students' Learning","authors":"Bill Lucas","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The PISA 2022 Creative Thinking (CT) assessment is a watershed moment for the status of CT in schools, providing leadership opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. This extensive new data set reminds educators of the challenges faced by anyone trying to change a system predicated on individual subject disciplines and their largely content-based assessments. It also helpfully further debunks some surprisingly long-held myths about creativity—that it is vague, undermines scholarship, cannot be taught, and cannot be assessed in schools. This paper moves beyond the important ‘event’ of the PISA test to the important ongoing processes of formative assessments in classrooms which could be taking place today. Examples are offered from the author's own research with schools which expand on the PISA data and possible next steps are identified for school and system leaders who wish to seize the opportunities presented by the PISA CT Test.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145101165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: Expanding the Scope of Creativity Assessment: Integrating Everyday Creativity to Address 21st Century Complexities","authors":"Margaret Mangion, Leonie Baldacchino","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The OECD's PISA Creative Thinking (CT) Assessment, introduced as part of the PISA framework in 2022, marks a significant advancement in recognizing creativity as an essential skill for the 21st century. However, as with all new initiatives, a review of the PISA CT 2022 highlights certain limitations that could benefit from refinement in future iterations of the battery to achieve a more comprehensive and ecologically valid understanding of adolescent creative thinking. In this commentary, we argue for an expansion of the PISA CT's focus to include assessment of everyday creativity (EC), which reflects the practical and contextual realities of contemporary life.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Work Addiction and Creativity: Balanced View and Benefits of Workaholism","authors":"Paweł A. Atroszko, Piotr M. Luszuk","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Naseer et al. paper provided interesting data suggesting that workaholism fosters employees' creativity and argued for a more balanced perspective to the dominant negative view of workaholics. We draw attention to several issues with the used design, findings, conclusions, and alternative explanations for the gathered data in the light of considerable developments in workaholism literature over the last decade: (i) workaholism/work addiction refers to a phenomenon conceptualized as an addictive disorder with well-established associations with a broad range of harm, (ii) it is comorbid with various psychopathologies, substance use and dependence, (iii) mental health problems and addictions are associated with creativity, (iv) however, these links are complex and often unclear, (v) work for some individuals is hypothesized to fulfill similar functions as stimulant drugs such as amphetamines, (vi) the initial studies support the mechanism of transition from healthy work engagement to workaholism via absorption phenomenologically indistinguishable from stimulant-induced “high.” We align with the proposition to develop a balanced view of workaholism, and we advocate for a nuanced framework that considers the complex cost/benefits ratios between short and long-term harms and potential gains. Both should be carefully investigated with robust methodologies allowing for evidence-based and informed decisions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}