{"title":"Connecting the Dots of Creativity and Curiosity: A Weekly Diary Examination Using Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling","authors":"Leonidas A. Zampetakis","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1500","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.1500","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the last decade, research on the connection between curiosity and creativity has surged revealing a positive correlation. However, these findings are primarily based on cross-sectional studies, which do not establish the direction of the relationship between creativity and curiosity. Is curiosity the driving force behind creativity, or does creativity spark curiosity? The present study addresses this question by examining the potential reciprocal associations between creativity and curiosity within-persons using state-of-the-art methodology and statistics. Self-reported data were collected on a weekly basis from a sample of Greek entrepreneurs (<i>N</i> = 195, 49% female) over a 10-week period. We used the dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM) framework for data analyses. Results supported the positive relationship between creativity and curiosity within and between individuals. At the within-person level, creativity and curiosity exhibited significant carry-over effects from 1 week to the next. However, we did not find consistent evidence for cross-lagged effects, meaning that curiosity and creativity did not directly cause changes in each other within a 1-week period. We also found significant random effects underscoring the role of curiosity as a catalyst for creativity, particularly when individuals do not have a strong tendency for their creative levels to persist but do have a strong tendency for their curiosity levels to persist. In such cases, curiosity seems to have a more pronounced impact on shaping creative endeavors. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory and practice and suggest directions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"577-591"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.1500","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141646157","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 Interplay between Negative Activating Emotions, Family Expressiveness, and Gender: Implications for Creativity","authors":"Minghui Wang, Yusuke Takahashi, Cecilia Cheung","doi":"10.1002/jocb.684","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.684","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on the implications of negative emotions for creativity has yielded mixed findings. To clarify this relationship, we conducted a short-term prospective study with data collected across two time points. We also explored the moderating roles of family expressiveness and gender in the creative process. The sample included 392 Japanese adolescents (54.7% female; age range: 12–13 years old). Adolescents reported on their experiences of negative activating emotion (e.g., fear, anxiety) and the degree to which their family members expressed positive emotions (e.g., expressing gratitude) toward each other. A drawing task and an alternative uses task (AUT) were used to measure adolescents' creativity. For creativity expressed in the drawing task, negative activating emotion enhanced creativity in girls only when their families' emotional expressivity was of low or average levels. For creativity indexed by the AUT, a high level of family expressiveness strengthened the relationship between negative activating emotion and creativity in boys but suppressed such a relationship in girls. Findings suggest that, at least among Japanese adolescents, the associations between negative activating emotions and creativity can depend on multiple factors, including family emotional expressivity, gender, and the nature of the creativity task.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"561-576"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.684","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613845","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}
Huan Li, Qinghui Hou, Ren Mu, Yating Wang, Yating Yang
{"title":"Unraveling the Impact of Team Performance-Prove Goal Orientation on Employee Creative Performance Through a Transactional Stress Theory Framework","authors":"Huan Li, Qinghui Hou, Ren Mu, Yating Wang, Yating Yang","doi":"10.1002/jocb.681","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.681","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Although research on team performance-prove goal orientation (TPPGO) has flourished, there remains a scarcity of studies investigating its impact on individual performance. Drawing upon transactional stress theory, our study aims to explore the dual nature of the influence exerted by TPPGO on employee creative performance. Employing a multi-level regression analysis of 369 two-stage, multi-source matched questionnaire responses, we find that challenge appraisal serves as a mediator in the relation between TPPGO and creative performance, while threat appraisal acts as a conditional mediator. Furthermore, subjective goal difficulty moderates the effect of TPPGO on both challenge and threat appraisals, thereby transmitting the positive and negative impacts of TPPGO on creative performance, respectively. Our findings contribute to the existing research by enriching the understanding of how TPPGO impacts creative performance, including its explanatory mechanisms and boundary conditions. Additionally, this study offers valuable suggestions for managers in setting team goals from a dialectical perspective.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141669635","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}
Alexandra Powell, Abbey K. Mann, Jenn S. Rossmann, Rohan Prabhu
{"title":"Making Design Moves: Exploring the Relationship Between Gender, Self-Efficacy, and Design Moves in Collaborative Ideation","authors":"Alexandra Powell, Abbey K. Mann, Jenn S. Rossmann, Rohan Prabhu","doi":"10.1002/jocb.682","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.682","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As more women enter engineering, the climate of engineering teams must be improved to ensure that women feel included and inspired to design innovative solutions. Prior research suggests that women in STEM often report lower levels of self-efficacy, which could limit their engagement in collaborative design tasks. Unfortunately, little research has explored how designers' gender and self-efficacy play a role in collaborative ideation and we aim to explore this research gap. We conducted an observational study with nominal—that is, non-interacting—and balanced four-member design teams, involving a collaborative ideation task. From the results, we see that the mean frequency of new ideas proposed by men was greater than those proposed by women. This result suggests that men may emphasize creating new ideas rather than acknowledging others' ideas. Furthermore, we see that men with higher self-efficacy provided more compliments and criticisms, and these relationships were relatively weaker or the opposite for women. These results suggest that participants with different gender identities may make different design moves in collaboration ideation, and these differences are further influenced by their self-efficacy. These results call for further exploration into the role of self-efficacy in creating inclusive collaborative design environments, especially for designers belonging to historically underrepresented identities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"546-560"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141666836","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}
Saleh Samimi Dehkordi, Ivan Radević, Matej Černe, Katerina Božič, Amadeja Lamovšek
{"title":"The Three-Way Interaction of Autonomy, Openness to Experience, and Techno-Invasion in Predicting Employee Creativity","authors":"Saleh Samimi Dehkordi, Ivan Radević, Matej Černe, Katerina Božič, Amadeja Lamovšek","doi":"10.1002/jocb.679","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.679","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the increasing need for creativity in rapidly evolving markets and work environments, not all employees are able to engage in this crucial behavior at work. The interactionist perspective suggests that creativity in organizations can be predicted by the interplay of individual and situational elements. With this theoretical framework, the study aimed to generate and develop insights into the job autonomy–employee creativity relationship by proposing and testing the joint moderating role of an individual (i.e., openness to experience) and contextual factor (i.e., techno-invasion). The sample (<i>n</i> = 435) drew from three sources (focal employees, their family members, supervisors) concerning the creativity of working professionals and what predicts it in a variety of industries. The findings reveal a curvilinear relationship between autonomy and creative behavior and the moderating effect of openness to experience in this relationship. Support is also found for the three-way interaction of autonomy, openness to experience, and techno-invasion in fostering creative behavior. Important theoretical and practical implications thus arise for establishing the work context of potentially creative individuals given different levels of technology demands and job conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.679","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141674351","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":"Development and Testing of the Cyber Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale","authors":"Chenxi Liu, Leqi Li, Zhe Gong","doi":"10.1002/jocb.669","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.669","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the current research, we developed and tested a Cyber Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (CMCBS), which contains 11 items in three dimensions and aims to measure the degree of individuals' cyber malevolent creativity through malevolent creative behaviors in their lives. The results revealed satisfactory reliability with Cronbach's α coefficient of 0.749 for the overall scale. Specifically, the calculated values were 0.681 for cybershaming, 0.799 for technology abuse, and 0.644 for information manipulation. Data were collected utilizing an online survey (<i>N</i> = 988) in the form of a questionnaire. Using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, the questionnaire's latent structure and contribution of relevant correlates for explaining cyber malevolent creativity were examined. The CMCBS was significantly and positively correlated with the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale, Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire, and the Cyberbullying Inventory. This, along with the adequate psychometric properties uncovered here, indicates that it is a useful tool for research on cyber malevolent creativity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 3","pages":"478-490"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518655","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 Does Perceived Innovation Importance Underpin the Association Between Deliberate Practice and Employee Creative Behavior","authors":"Shichao Yu, Arslan Ayub, Tehreem Fatima, Amna Hasnain","doi":"10.1002/jocb.676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.676","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In the pursuit of innovation, the critical role of deliberate practice in enhancing employee creative behavior is examined, considering the influences of harmonious entrepreneurial passion and the importance employees perceive in innovation within their organizations. This investigation, grounded in self-determination theory (SDT) and social cognitive theory, proposes a model where deliberate practice impacts employee creative behavior through the mediating effect of harmonious entrepreneurial passion and is further amplified by the level of perceived innovation importance. The study uses a multisource, three-wave data collection technique to gather data from employees working in software houses in Pakistan. The study utilizes SmartPLS (v 4.0) to assess the measurement and structural models. The findings reveal that deliberate practice has a significant positive impact on employee creative behavior. Besides, harmonious entrepreneurial passion mediates the link between deliberate practice and employee creative behavior. In addition, the results confirm the interaction effect of perceived innovation importance. The positive influence of deliberate practice on employee creative behavior through the mediating role of harmonious entrepreneurial passion is more potent at higher levels of perceived innovation importance. The study presents several important theoretical and practical implications.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475614","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":"The Art of Creative Inquiry—From Question Asking to Prompt Engineering","authors":"Gal Sasson Lazovsky, Tuval Raz, Yoed N. Kenett","doi":"10.1002/jocb.671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.671","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As artificial intelligence and natural language processing methods rapidly develop, communication plays a pivotal role in every-day interactions. In this theoretical paper, we explore the overlap and commonalities between question-asking and prompt engineering. While seemingly distinct, these processes share a common foundation in essential skills like creativity, critical thinking, and cognitive flexibility. We contend that prompt engineering, the art of crafting cues for language models, and question-asking, the skill of formulating inquiries, form a symbiotic relationship. Delving into question complexity through Bloom's taxonomy and diverse types of questions, we propose strategies for not only efficient but also engaging prompt design. Our theoretical contribution emphasizes the dynamic role of creativity in both processes, offering intriguing perspectives on human–machine interactions and advancing our understanding of language models and communication skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.671","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475677","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":"Automated Scoring of Figural Tests of Creativity with Computer Vision","authors":"Selcuk Acar, Peter Organisciak, Denis Dumas","doi":"10.1002/jocb.677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.677","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In this three-study investigation, we applied various approaches to score drawings created in response to both Form A and Form B of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking-Figural (broadly TTCT-F) as well as the Multi-Trial Creative Ideation task (MTCI). We focused on TTCT-F in Study 1, and utilizing a random forest classifier, we achieved 79% and 81% accuracy for drawings only (<i>r</i> = .57; .54), 80% and 85% for drawings and titles (<i>r</i> = .59; .65), and 78% and 85% for titles alone (<i>r</i> = .54; .65), across Form A and Form B, respectively. We trained a combined model for both TTCT-F forms concurrently with fine-tuned vision transformer models (i.e., BEiT) observing accuracy on images of 83% (<i>r</i> = .64)<i>.</i> Study 2 extended these analyses to 11,075 drawings produced for MTCI. With the feature-based regressors, we found a Pearson correlation with human labels (<i>r</i>s <i>=</i> .80, 78, and .76 for AdaBoost, and XGBoost, respectively). Finally, the vision transformer method demonstrated a correlation of <i>r</i> = .85. In Study 3, we re-analyzed the TTCT-F and MTCI data with unsupervised learning methods, which worked better for MTCI than TTCT-F but still underperformed compared to supervised learning methods. Findings are discussed in terms of research and practical implications featuring Ocsai-D, a new in-browser scoring interface.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475678","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}
Andrea Patti, Giuseppe Pierpaolo Merola, Davide Benedetti, Bernardo Bozza, Giulia Pitt, Vincenzo Pecoraro, Gaia D'Anna, Giulia Minotti, PerArt Study Group, Andrea Ballerini, Valdo Ricca
{"title":"Creative Minds: Altered Salience as a Bridge Between Creativity and Psychosis, a Case–Control Study","authors":"Andrea Patti, Giuseppe Pierpaolo Merola, Davide Benedetti, Bernardo Bozza, Giulia Pitt, Vincenzo Pecoraro, Gaia D'Anna, Giulia Minotti, PerArt Study Group, Andrea Ballerini, Valdo Ricca","doi":"10.1002/jocb.678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.678","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Prior studies suggest a multifaceted relationship between creativity and psychopathology, indicating that mild psychopathology might enhance creative behavior. Moreover, similar brain regions may be implicated in both creativity and psychosis. Although aberrant salience (AS) is often associated with psychotic disorders, it could also enhance creative capabilities. This study assesses salience alterations among healthy individuals, artists, and patients with psychosis to investigate its influence on creativity. Three groups were studied: 196 healthy controls, 50 artists from Florence Academy of Fine Arts, and 84 outpatients with a diagnosis of psychosis. They were assessed with the Aberrant Salience Inventory (ASI). We compared ASI scores among the groups using ANOVA, followed by post-hoc <i>t</i>-tests, and adjusted the scores for age, gender, and education through ANCOVA. The ANOVA revealed significant differences in ASI scores among the groups, with artists displaying notably higher ASI scores than both controls and patients. ANCOVA confirmed that group membership was a significant factor influencing ASI scores, while age, gender, and education were not. Additionally, antipsychotic treatment did not significantly impact ASI scores among patients. Rather than an unequivocal marker of pathology, AS might also be interpreted as an anthropological asset, enhancing creative faculties alongside unique perceptual experiences. Education may help individuals in channeling their AS mechanisms through art.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"58 4","pages":"537-545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.678","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252844","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}