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{"title":"Curious and Persistent, but not Consistent: Self-regulation Traits and Creativity","authors":"Shengjie Lin, Zorana Ivcevic, Todd B. Kashdan, Scott Barry Kaufman","doi":"10.1002/jocb.638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.638","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines two self-regulation traits, grit and curiosity, in predicting creative achievement in an adult sample (<i>N</i> = 522). Grit has been related to achievement in various domains, and although prior empirical work failed to find associations with everyday creative activities in adolescent and young adult samples, theoretically it is relevant to long-term creative achievement (which requires persistence). Curiosity supports creative achievement through positive judgments of novelty and an intrinsic motivation to approach instead of avoid uncertainty, and both novelty and uncertainty are central to the creative process. Results showed that the perseverance dimension of grit positively predicted creative achievement, whereas the consistency of interests dimension was negatively related to creative achievement. Additionally, five curiosity dimensions predicted creative achievement above grit. In particular, thrill seeking predicted creative achievement in both art and science; deprivation sensitivity positively predicted creative achievement in art. Our research suggests that, instead of a narrow focus on consistency of interest, creative achievement benefits from curiosity.","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139584051","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 Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models","authors":"William Orwig,&nbsp;Emma R. Edenbaum,&nbsp;Joshua D. Greene,&nbsp;Daniel L. Schacter","doi":"10.1002/jocb.636","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.636","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Recent developments in computerized scoring via semantic distance have provided automated assessments of verbal creativity. Here, we extend past work, applying computational linguistic approaches to characterize salient features of creative text. We hypothesize that, in addition to semantic diversity, the degree to which a story includes perceptual details, thus transporting the reader to another time and place, would be predictive of creativity. Additionally, we explore the use of generative language models to supplement human data collection and examine the extent to which machine-generated stories can mimic human creativity. We collect 600 short stories from human participants and GPT-3, subsequently randomized and assessed on their creative quality. Results indicate that the presence of perceptual details, in conjunction with semantic diversity, is highly predictive of creativity. These results were replicated in an independent sample of stories (<i>n</i> = 120) generated by GPT-4. We do not observe a significant difference between human and AI-generated stories in terms of creativity ratings, and we also observe positive correlations between human and AI assessments of creativity. Implications and future directions are discussed.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139458580","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":"Process Modification and Uncontrollability in an Expert Contemporary Artist's Creative Processes","authors":"Takeshi Okada, Sawako Yokochi","doi":"10.1002/jocb.635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.635","url":null,"abstract":"As a case study that consists of two parts, this research investigates how a pro-c class expert artist thinks and acts during art making, paying special attention to exploratory behaviors and task completion processes. In Part 1 of this case study, we videoed an artist's authentic creative process in his studio. We interviewed him about his drawing process by showing him the video recording right after the drawing. We conducted a retrospective interview with him 16 months later as Part 2 of this case study because this experience inspired him to start several new artwork series. We analyzed the video and interview data qualitatively. The results showed that the artist used various exploratory behaviors, including a process modification in which elements in one's ordinary creative process are changed. The process modification triggered different types of drawing actions. Although he participated in task completion processes for self-regulation, he also actively generated a situation in which task completion processes were weakened to experience and utilize feelings of uncontrollability to create something unexpected. We discussed the essential roles of process modification, reflection, and feelings of uncontrollability in artistic creation.","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139458683","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":"Does Metacognition Matter in Creative Problem-Solving? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Writing","authors":"Marek Urban, Kamila Urban","doi":"10.1002/jocb.630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.630","url":null,"abstract":"Creative problem-solving skills are essential for navigating complex, non-routine challenges, enabling individuals to create unique goals, execute innovative procedures and generate original outcomes. While the link between metacognitive skills and the creativity of outcomes was established only recently, further exploration is required to understand their interplay in complex problem-solving. This explanatory sequential mixed-methods study investigated the role of metacognition in solving two ill-defined problem-solving tasks: an experimental Product Improvement Task and an ecologically valid semestral essay. Seventeen undergraduates performed tasks and provided monitoring judgments. Based on the originality of outcomes and accuracy of judgments, three clusters of students were identified: <i>skilled and unaware</i> students underestimating high performance, <i>unskilled and unaware</i> overestimating low performance, and <i>unskilled but aware</i> accurately monitoring low performance. Subsequent in-depth interviews investigated the essay writing process of each cluster. Skilled students effectively utilized metacognitive knowledge, created a unique problem representation, and gathered and synthesized new information to develop essay drafts that were debugged and evaluated. Unskilled and unaware students exhibited deficits in strategy knowledge and had poor metacognitive skills. Unskilled but aware students exhibited low self-efficacy and motivation to perform. These findings emphasize the need for targeted metacognitive and motivational interventions for different clusters of students.","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139415384","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":"Creativity Research Overlooks the Study of Resilience among Young Children: A Bibliometric Network Review","authors":"Nicolas B. Verger,&nbsp;Julie Roberts,&nbsp;Jane Guiller,&nbsp;Kareena McAloney-Kocaman","doi":"10.1002/jocb.632","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.632","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Creativity researchers are increasingly interested in understanding when, how, and for whom creativity can be beneficial. Previous reviews have demonstrated that creativity research largely ignores the study of its impact on factors that promote health, and well-being among populations of adults. It is unclear, in fact, whether this gap in research also extends to creativity research among young children. This paper addresses this issue. Early childhood is a crucial stage for the cognitive development of young children who remain highly sensitive to stress, and adversity. It is therefore essential to identify and promote factors that are beneficial to early childhood resilience, thereby contributing to documenting more of the effects of creative activities on positive outcomes. This paper presents a review with a bibliometric analysis of 1000 randomly selected articles from the Web of Science, without bias towards any specific peer-reviewed journal. The analysis of 454 included articles shows that approximately 80% of the included studies focus on creativity as an outcome (replicating previous findings with a larger sample), with only 3.78% investigating creative activities as predictors among young children. In this small percentage, most of the studies addressed creative activities in young children related to resilience outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.632","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139409542","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":"Never Ending Stories? Hebrew Writers' Creative Journey in the Second Half of Life","authors":"Shlomit Aharoni Lir,&nbsp;Liat Ayalon","doi":"10.1002/jocb.631","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.631","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This qualitative study explored the relationship between creativity, time, age, and the literary world among 16 award-winning Israeli writers in the second half of their lives. Based on data collected through in-depth interviews with the participants, the findings indicate that the writers' creativity in the second half of life was linked to <i>Preservation</i>, <i>Growth</i>, and <i>Decline</i>, leading to four interrelated dimensions: (a) preserving youth through creativity, (b) enhancing creativity over time, (c) navigating creativity, acclaim, and ageism, and (d) managing creativity amidst a changing world. The study found that the writers' creativity was enhanced over time, as they gained experience and developed their skills. However, some writers experienced a decline in stamina or their ability to write long novels. The study also found that the writers' experiences of acceptance from the literary world and the audience changed over time. Some writers continued to receive acclaim and attention, while others experienced ageism and a decline in the audience's interest in their work.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.631","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373996","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":"Loose and Tight: Creative Formation but Rigid Use of Nominal Compounds in Conspiracist Texts","authors":"Alessandro Miani,&nbsp;Lonneke van der Plas,&nbsp;Adrian Bangerter","doi":"10.1002/jocb.633","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.633","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Conspiracy theories (CTs) are spectacular narratives, widely spread, that pose societal threats. We test whether CTs might be linguistically creative products, which would facilitate their transmission and thereby account for their widespread popularity. We analyzed nominal compounds (e.g., <i>mind control</i>, <i>carbon dioxide</i>; <i>N</i> = 1,713,568) from a large corpus of conspiracist and mainstream texts matched by topic. In conspiracist texts, compounds showed greater originality, divergence, and sophistication, but they were used with lower frequency and were more often repeated in different contexts. This pattern suggests a creative aspect in the generation of compounds, coupled with rigidity in their use. We interpret these findings as an effect of loosely defined conceptual boundaries among conspiracist writers, in conjunction with social functions like status or group signaling. Our findings not only contribute to the discourse on creativity in CTs but also provide insights into the communicative advantage of CTs.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.633","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373834","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":"Creative Subprocess Frequencies and Their Relation to Personal Characteristics and Product Creativity: Insights from a Drawing Task Think Aloud Study","authors":"Gregory T. Boldt, James C. Kaufman","doi":"10.1002/jocb.629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.629","url":null,"abstract":"Most research on the creative process has focused on idea generation, and the prevalence and influence of many other creative subprocesses remain poorly understood. To clarify different subprocesses' respective roles in creative work, this study investigated their frequencies and associations with creativity-related personal characteristics and product creativity. Undergraduate students (<i>n</i> = 266) articulated their creative thought processes via the think aloud method while completing an open-ended drawing task and completed questionnaires assessing creativity-relevant personal characteristics. Drawings were rated for creativity by quasi-expert judges. Transcripts were coded using an a priori coding scheme informed by models of the creative process, including generation (14%), elaboration (26%), association (9%), selection (4%), evaluation (13%), anchoring (13%), metacognition (7%), and filler (14%). Subprocess frequencies correlated minimally with measures of personal characteristics, although several significant, albeit weak, relationships emerged. A hierarchical regression analysis indicated that the best predictors of drawing creativity were aesthetic fluency, the frequency of anchoring, time spent on task, and, marginally, the frequency of generation. Together, these results provide insight into how relevant personal characteristics and subprocess engagement contribute to drawing creativity and highlight the particular importance of anchoring, which involves monitoring and refining task-related goals and constraints, throughout the creative process.","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138825201","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":"Correction to “The Machines Take over: A Comparison of Various Supervised Learning Approaches for Automated Scoring of Divergent Thinking Tasks”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/jocb.627","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jocb.627","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Buczak, P., Huang, H., Forthmann, B., &amp; Doebler, P. (2023). The machines take over: A comparison of various supervised learning approaches for automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks. &lt;i&gt;The Journal of Creative Behavior&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;57&lt;/i&gt;, 17–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.559\u0000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Due to an error in our code for the data preprocessing, we only utilized the word embeddings (WEs) of the last word in sentences instead of aggregating all WEs. This affected the use of WEs as model features and resulted in incomplete data usage. Our program code has been fixed and we have rerun our simulations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We apologize for this error.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To highlight the most important differences between the findings reported in Buczak et al. (2023) and the corrected findings, Figure 1 shows the changes in terms of RMSE for the three learners on the Hofelich-Mohr et al. (2016) data set when applied in the setting of our first simulation study using two different semantic spaces. Overall, support vector regression (SVR), extreme gradient boosting (XGB), and random forest (RF) models profited greatly from the updated WEs whenever these were directly included as features. As the “Meta” feature set did not contain WEs in any form, the corresponding models and their results remained unaffected by the change. For the “Meta- + WE-based” feature set, however, the model's performance declined slightly. Regarding the learners, the updated WEs mostly led to a noticeable jump in performance for SVR when using a low-dimensional semantic space (i.e., 50 or 100 dimensions). In these cases, SVR even outperformed XGB and RF. However, SVR suffered when using high-dimensional semantic spaces. Apart from SVR, only subtle differences emerged regarding the choice of semantic space for XGB and RF.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similar patterns of change were observed in the results for the Silvia et al. (2008) data, and when looking at correlations instead of the prediction RMSE for both data sets (figures were excluded for the sake of brevity). For the cross-sample prediction setup in our second simulation study, this mostly held up as well. However, when training on Hofelich-Mohr et al. (2016) and predicting Silvia et al. (2008), the performance of SVR increased with increasing semantic space dimensionality when studying the RMSE. For correlation scores, SVR's performance, again, suffered when a semantic space of high dimensionality was used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for the models using the WEs directly, the improved performance was to be expected since the aggregated WEs of all words capture more information about the answer than the WEs of a single word. However, the reasons behind the performance decrease for the models using WE-based features seem less clear-cut. Perhaps, WE-based features such as cosine similarity, WE norm, and the number of high-loading WEs degraded slightly in quality because we added word vectors from single words, including words almost unrelated to the idea described.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alt","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.627","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138567220","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":"Associations among Challenge Stress, Hindrance Stress, and Employees' Innovative Work Behavior: Mediation Effects of Thriving at Work and Emotional Exhaustion","authors":"Jinyan Xie,&nbsp;Zhonglin Wen,&nbsp;Yiming Ma,&nbsp;Baozhen Cai,&nbsp;Xiqin Liu","doi":"10.1002/jocb.624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.624","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Employees' innovative work behavior (IWB) is one of the key factors in improving organizational competitiveness. Previous studies show that challenge and hindrance stress can impact employees' IWB, but our understanding of the exact mechanism underlying the impact is still limited. The present study employed four scales (Challenge and Hindrance Stress Scale, Thriving at Work Scale, Chinese Emotional Exhaustion Scale, and Employee Innovative Behavior Scale) to collect questionnaire data from 789 employees in diverse organizations via an online platform. A two-path mediation model was constructed. The results show that: (a) challenge stress positively predicted thriving at work and IWB; (b) thriving at work played a partial mediation effect between challenge stress and IWB; (c) hindrance stress negatively predicted thriving at work and positively predicted emotional exhaustion; and (4) hindrance stress did not directly impact IWB while thriving at work and emotional exhaustion were main mediators in the relationship between hindrance stress and IWB. These findings suggest that employees should sensibly cope with different work stresses, while managers should plan work tasks scientifically and give employees adequate opportunities to learn and rest in order to keep them in a positive state to solve problems and work creatively.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140343116","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}