{"title":"School Culture's Openness to Creative Solutions and Teachers' Inquiry-Based Teaching: A Multinational Study of Asian and European Countries","authors":"Ju-Hui Wei, Hsueh-Hua Chuang, Thomas J. Smith","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1515","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Previous research suggests that teachers' adoption of inquiry-based teaching is influenced by school culture's openness to creative solutions, with teachers' self-efficacy in inquiry-based teaching acting as a mediator. However, considering the potential impact of local educational and socio-cultural context on teachers' behavior, findings from one country may not readily generalize to another. For example, in regions with limited exposure and resources for inquiry-based teaching, self-efficacy may play a more prominent mediating role. Therefore, examining the comparative relationship between school culture's openness to creative solutions and teaching practices in Asian and European countries is worthwhile. This multinational study employed data from 23 Asian and European countries to scrutinize the connection between school culture's openness to creative solutions and inquiry-based teaching, with teachers' self-efficacy in inquiry-based teaching as the mediating factor. The results extended the findings of a previous single-country investigation and provided evidence supporting an indirect effect of school culture's openness to creative solutions on inquiry-based teaching as mediated by teacher self-efficacy across all 23 countries. Furthermore, it revealed stronger effects in Asian countries compared to their European counterparts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"710-721"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248988","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":"Building Narratives Through Empathy: The Role of Empathy Mechanisms and Associative Thinking in Creative Writing","authors":"Dominik Golab, Baptiste Barbot","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1516","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Empathy emerges as a pivotal skill in creative writing, yet previous studies lack an understanding of empathy's multidimensionality and specific impact of its facets on the capacity to generate narrative stories. This cross-sectional study delved into the various cognitive and affective empathy facets—that is, perspective-taking, online simulation, emotion contagion, proximal responsivity, and peripheral responsivity—and their contributions to creative writing. Further, it examined the mediating effects of associative thinking—conceptualized as a common empathy-creativity resource—on the relationship between empathy facets and creative writing. Two-hundred twenty participants (university students) completed performance-based tasks and self-report measures of creative writing, associative thinking, and empathy. A latent mediation model implemented in Structural Equation Modeling indicated two effects of empathy facets on creative writing, with perspective-taking emerging as a positive predictor. Additionally, peripheral responsivity (i.e., affect sharing in indirect contexts) exhibited an indirect positive influence on creative writing, mediated by associative thinking. In summary, associative thinking appears to be an important ingredient in both empathy and creative writing, while cognitive empathy, specifically intuitive perspective-taking, contributes significantly to creative writing skills. Future studies should further explore these connections and their causalities, possibly using experimental or longitudinal approaches.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"739-754"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248987","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":"How to Teach Creativity When There's No Such Thing as Creativity","authors":"John Baer","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1518","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>There is an infinity of realized and potential creative things, creative ideas, and creative performances, and yet there is no such thing as creativity, at least not in the two ways most of us think about creativity. (1) There is no general essence of creativity, no indispensable factor or shared quality that is an intrinsic part of all creative ideas, performances, or products. Creativity and expertise are very different things, but what makes a painting, a scientific theory, or a dance performance creative varies across domains in the same way that what constitutes expertise varies in these different disciplines. (2) And just as learning what a haiku is will not increase one's expertise in cooking or cosmology, developing creative-thinking skills helpful in writing poetry will not make one a more creative chef or astronomer. Despite these constraints, it has been shown that creativity training can often result in more creative products, ideas, and performances, but primarily when trainers have put aside these two misguided and counter-productive ways to conceptualize creativity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598184","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}
Angelique Nairn, Taylor Annabell, Justin Matthews, Deepti Bhargava
{"title":"To Perform or Not to Perform: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Aotearoa New Zealand's Performing Arts Sector","authors":"Angelique Nairn, Taylor Annabell, Justin Matthews, Deepti Bhargava","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1514","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article explores narratives of how COVID-19 impacted the performing arts sector, by drawing on interviews with creative workers in Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite the late exposure to COVID-19 and the adoption of an elimination approach that afforded opportunities for performing arts to continue to varying extents between 2019 and 2022, cultural workers in Aotearoa New Zealand, as with their overseas counterparts, experienced significant and consequential disruption to their working conditions and lives. Taking into account the specificity of Aotearoa New Zealand's performing arts sector and the government's COVID-19 response, the article contributes to the empirical examination of COVID-19 experiences by teasing out narratives of impact from cultural workers. The thematic analysis demonstrates how participants presented (1) COVID-19 as responsible for financial, emotional, and psychological costs, (2) framed opportunities arising from disrupted working conditions and wage subsidy as “silver linings,” (3) were reliant on digital technologies, and (4) constructed the return to “normal” as marked by the COVID-19 “aftermath.” The article argues that uniting these perceptions and articulations of impact is the ongoing (re)evaluations of risks and benefits by cultural workers of working conditions that predate COVID-19.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"722-738"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253339","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}
Maja Stanko-Kaczmarek, Lilianna Dera, Halszka Koscielska
{"title":"“Between the Lines”: Perceptions of Poetry With Authorship Attributed to Artificial Intelligence or Humans – A Comparative Analysis","authors":"Maja Stanko-Kaczmarek, Lilianna Dera, Halszka Koscielska","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1513","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) literature generation, understanding how society perceives AI-generated content, compared with human-produced literature is of paramount importance. This study investigated societal perceptions and biases toward AI-generated versus human-produced poetry. A sample of 123 participants was subjected to a controlled experiment in which they evaluated a human-generated poem that was randomly attributed to either a human, an AI, or an unspecified author. The assessment metrics comprised five categories: originality, aesthetic appeal, emotional engagement, coherence, and interpretive difficulty. An analysis of variance was used to analyze the survey results. Our findings revealed that poems attributed to an AI consistently received lower scores for originality, aesthetic appeal, and emotional engagement compared to those attributed to a human author. However, AI-generated content was perceived as more complex and was rated higher in terms of interpretive difficulty. Interestingly, perceived authorship did not significantly influence coherence as a metric. When the poem was believed to be AI-generated, it faced more critical evaluations than when it was human-attributed. When authorship was ambiguous, feedback was distributed uniformly across negative, positive, and neutral sentiments, suggesting a potential mitigating effect of ambiguity on bias.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598615","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}
Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan, Enikő Szabó, Christian Rominger, Andreas Fink, Laura Opris, Nóra Pataky
{"title":"Criminal Genius or Everyday Villain? A Comparison of Malevolent Creativity Among Prisoners, Police Officers, and the General Population","authors":"Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan, Enikő Szabó, Christian Rominger, Andreas Fink, Laura Opris, Nóra Pataky","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1512","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Criminals allegedly use effective novelty to intentionally exploit and harm others (creative fraud, theft, and murder). However, empirical evidence that criminals possess higher malevolent creativity than individuals without criminal backgrounds is lacking. We compared a male sample of prisoners in a maximum-security penitentiary (<i>n</i> = 140), police officers (<i>n</i> = 122), and the general population (<i>n</i> = 106) on three different aspects of malevolent creativity: self-reported malevolent creativity behavior (MCBS), willingness to engage in malevolent creativity on a test (MCT), and malevolent creativity potential on that test (reduced <i>n</i> = 285). Group comparisons (ANOVAs) differed for different malevolent creativity aspects: Prisoners reported more malevolent creativity behavior in daily life (MCBS) than nonprisoners, which may reflect their alleged criminal personality or the effects of confinement on creative coping with threat. However, prisoners also performed worse than police officers in generating creative ideas for taking revenge on others (MCT). No differences in initial willingness to engage in malevolent creativity (MCT) emerged. This discrepancy of self-report and ability is discussed from several angles, including suitability of the applied measures and heterogeneity of prison populations. This study constitutes the first empirical insights into the often hypothesized but rarely tested malevolent creativity expression in the criminal mind.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"676-695"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.1512","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253197","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}
Paola Iannello, Alice Cancer, Leor Zmigrod, Alessandro Antonietti, Carola Salvi
{"title":"Creative Minds in a Polarized World","authors":"Paola Iannello, Alice Cancer, Leor Zmigrod, Alessandro Antonietti, Carola Salvi","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1509","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In today's digital milieu, characterized by pervasive media exposure, the intricate interplay between individual differences and cognitive processes has garnered significant scholarly interest. A notable facet of this interrelation pertains to the nexus between cognitive flexibility and individuals' engagement with online information. Recognized as essential for creative cognition, cognitive flexibility encompasses various facets of human reasoning vital for adapting to new information and challenging entrenched perspectives. This review expands the traditional “out-of-the-box” thinking paradigm beyond creative cognition to encompass a comprehensive reasoning framework that questions entrenched viewpoints and fixed cognitive schemas. By analyzing recent scholarly discussions on fake news and polarization, we underscore the pivotal role of cognitive flexibility in guiding individuals' critical navigation of the digital information landscape, promoting nuanced and less polarized perspectives. Introducing the concept of Socio-Cognitive Polarization, we elucidate how individuals with differing ideological backgrounds can exhibit escalating cognitive divisions and absolutist tendencies. Leveraging insights from existing literature, we present methodological strategies for combating misinformation and nurturing critical thinking to counteract the detrimental impact of deceptive narratives on societal discourse. This scholarly exposition advances the understanding of the challenges associated with misinformation dissemination and offers empirically grounded approaches for enhancing critical cognition in the digital era.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598327","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":"Transformational Creativity, Care, and the Common Good: Toward a Refined Definition?","authors":"Nicolas B. Verger","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1511","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The concept of transformational creativity has been widely embraced as a desired shift in creativity research. Transformational creativity emphasizes the development of creativity in service to the common good. However, to date, what precisely constitutes this “common good” for researchers of transformational creativity remains unclear. As evidenced by the recent Handbook of Transformational Creativity, the term “common good” has been deployed on numerous occasions without any definition or rationalization of its meaning. The aim of this article was therefore to delineate what may constitute a common good which is worth contributing to. Motivated by transdisciplinary outlooks, it explores the concept of the common good through the lenses of human needs, degrowth, and the ethics of care. This article redefines transformational creativity as the creation of new ideas, artifacts, or practices that promote the common good by fostering caring, needs-responsive relationships and enabling communities to collectively contribute to their well-being and support a sustainable, ecologically nurturing, and preserving livelihood.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"696-709"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.1511","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252708","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}
Jinqi Ding, Yuxin Shi, Quanlei Yu, Suping Sun, Han Liu, Wanjun Zhou, Wenhui Zhao, Qingbai Zhao, Suo Jiang
{"title":"Collectivism–Individualism Makes the Relationships Between Digital Games Use and Creativity Different","authors":"Jinqi Ding, Yuxin Shi, Quanlei Yu, Suping Sun, Han Liu, Wanjun Zhou, Wenhui Zhao, Qingbai Zhao, Suo Jiang","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1508","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.1508","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>With the increasing popularity of the Internet, there is significant interest among academics and the public in understanding the relationship between the Internet and individual development. However, the association between digital games use and creativity has been a topic of controversy, as highlighted in previous research. This study aimed to investigate the potential moderating effect of cultural backgrounds on the relationship between digital games use and creativity. To examine this hypothesis, a meta-analysis of 11 papers (51 effect values) was conducted. The findings revealed digital games use was significantly correlated with originality and elaboration, rather than fluency and flexibility. Moreover, the relationship between digital games use and originality was found to be moderated by cultural collectivism–individualism. Specifically, as the level of individualistic culture increased, the strength of the correlation between digital games use and originality gradually diminished. No such moderating effect was observed for other dimensions of creativity. These results hold important theoretical implications for understanding the impact of digital games use on individual cognitive development. Additionally, they provide practical insights for offering sensitive recommendations on how to effectively harness the positive effects of digital games.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225318","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":"Novelty Seeking Differences in Temporal Dynamics for Novelty and Appropriateness Processing of Creative Information: An ERP Investigation","authors":"Yuanjing Lyu, Shuoqi Xiang, Zexuan Jiang, Huizhi Bai, Junjie Huang, Weixing Yang, Xing Wang, Senqing Qi, Weiping Hu","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1504","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.1504","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Novelty seeking has been found to affect creative performance, but its impact on the temporal dynamics of creative information processing remains unclear. Creative information is identified by two key indicators—novelty and appropriateness. To explore the effect of novelty seeking on the temporal processing of novelty and appropriateness, a revised alternative uses task (AUT) was conducted with 29 high novelty-seeking (HNS) and 31 low novelty-seeking (LNS) individuals. Event-related potentials (ERPs) and spontaneous blink rate (EBR) were used to measure temporal dynamics and infer physiological mechanisms. (1) For novelty processing, HNS individuals performed quicker information processing (shorter N1/P2 latency) and had a greater capacity to recognize semantic distance (higher P600 peak amplitude). (2) For appropriate processing, HNS individuals also had a faster information processing rate (shorter N1/P2 latency). (3) HNS individuals had higher baseline EBR and showed enhancements in cognitive speed based on real-time EBR. In contrast, the LNS group did not show the same improvement even with increased attention allocation. These findings expand the application of the Novelty Seeking Model (NGM) in creative information processing. Additionally, the results of EBR suggest that dopamine might be the critical physiological mechanism through which novelty-seeking influences creative information processing.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"613-635"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198727","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}