Min Zhang, Jinyu Zhang, Siyu He, Xiang Li, Xufan Zhang
{"title":"The Path and Boundary of the Intra-Team Co-Opetition Relationship Affecting Employee Innovation Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model","authors":"Min Zhang, Jinyu Zhang, Siyu He, Xiang Li, Xufan Zhang","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Innovation is vital for business sustainability and market competitiveness, with employees playing a crucial role. Current research on employee innovation focuses on individual traits and organizational context, overlooking competition and cooperation. However, these factors influence employee performance. This study reveals through a scenario experiment and a questionnaire that: (1) A balance of competition and cooperation in a team increases exploratory-exploitation learning tension. (2) A combination of high competition and high cooperation positively impacts this tension more than a low competition–cooperation mix. (3) In a contradictory mix, the “high competition-low cooperation” combination has a greater positive impact than the “low competition-high cooperation” one. (4) This tension mediates the relationship between intra-team co-opetition and employee innovation. (5) A paradox mindset enhances the relationship between learning tension and innovation. The study provides insights on improving employee innovation through intra-team co-opetition, exploring mediation mechanisms and boundary conditions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689195","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":"PTSI: A Person × Task × Situation Interaction Theory of Creativity","authors":"Robert J. Sternberg","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents the PTSI (Person × Task × Situation Interaction) theory of creativity. The theory deals with the creative person, the deployment of creativity in tasks, the ecological context in which this deployment takes place, and the types of creative products that result. The theory draws upon a wide range of previous work. The article opens with an introduction to some major issues. Then it moves on to a review of past theoretical frameworks for understanding creativity. Next, it reviews various theories and models of creativity. Finally, it presents the PTSI theory. The attributes of the person system are personality, thinking styles, attitudes, cognitive processes, and knowledge. The task system represents the extent to which different aspects of a task encourage or discourage creative work. The situational context involves different hierarchically embedded levels of ecological context. The interaction between person, task, and situation produces different deployments of creativity and different types of creative contributions. After the theory is described, its motivation and then some of its strengths and weaknesses are considered, and future research is suggested to test the PTSI theory. The theory offers a somewhat more comprehensive view of creativity than many theories in the past have.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689194","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}
Eliana Santos de Farias, Bruno Bonfá-Araujo, Tatiana de Cassia Nakano, Carolina Rosa Campos
{"title":"Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale-Brazilian Portuguese: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties","authors":"Eliana Santos de Farias, Bruno Bonfá-Araujo, Tatiana de Cassia Nakano, Carolina Rosa Campos","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study aimed to adapt the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale (MCBS) to Brazilian Portuguese and to estimate validity evidence based on the internal structure and relationships with other variables and reliability. The sample consisted of 382 Brazilians aged between 18 and 71 (<i>M</i> = 32.18, SD = 12.89), of which 68.06% were female. Through the content validity coefficient, the judges' analysis indicated the adequacy of the items. In addition, confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated the adequacy of three factors, all with good reliability indicators. The convergent validity of the MCBS with the SD4 and the PSCD indicated that all correlations were positive, involving Machiavellianism, sadism, and psychopathy. Men presented significantly higher levels of all three malevolent creativity when compared to women. Thus, the results suggest that the MBCS adequately measures malevolent creativity in the Brazilian population.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143622629","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 Learning and Expression in College Classrooms Across Different Cultures","authors":"Carol A. Mullen","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Creativity and learning have long been connected in scholarship, with emphasis on developing and facilitating personal creativity. For this Fulbright-sponsored, exploratory qualitative study, I aimed to understand how college students construct meaning of creativity where contextual constraints exist using Kaufman and Beghetto's Four C Model of Creativity. Based on an international case study, the research question was, What forms of student creativity might emerge in constrained college classroom environments? I describe creativity concepts and provide an application from my program Creativity Under Duress in three countries. Methodologies were adapted from educational psychology to discover whether creative expression could manifest in difficult situations. Undergraduate and graduate students (<i>N</i> = 152) in education and humanities courses participated in four creative activities: written response to prompts, personal creativity essay, 3D paper poster, and 4-Cs presentation script. Student responses to my intervention paradoxically showed genuine creative engagement despite high-pressure, test-driven contexts and with time limits on each activity. This was the greatest outcome associated with revealing creativity in classrooms across different cultures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143602642","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 Impact of Positive Versus Negative Exemplar-Based Instructions on a Creative Writing Task","authors":"Steven E. Stemler, James C. Kaufman","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Some types of instructions for creativity tasks (such as explicitly telling people to be creative) can boost performance. Showing people examples or telling them ways of approaching the problem before they begin a creativity task can help, but results are mixed about whether it is better to emphasize positive examples/approaches that can be emulated or negative examples/approaches that should be avoided. In this study, 198 participants wrote two brief essays—one under a positive exemplar instructional condition and one under a negative exemplar instructional condition. The results showed that the stories of participants written under the positive instructional condition were rated significantly higher in overall creativity, originality, and humor than the stories written under the negative instructional condition. Results are discussed in light of previous findings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143602641","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 Make Full Use of Human Unconscious Thought System in Creative Tasks? The Positive Role of Performance Contingent Reward","authors":"Ran Ding, Bo Yang, Xiaolin Mei, Tingni Li","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>When people are working on creative tasks, they make progress in conscious thought (CT) and unconscious thought (UT) processes. UT occurs outside conscious awareness, and unlike CT, it is independent of working memory resources. Previous studies suggest UT is more influential under certain conditions, known as the UT effect. Typically, these studies utilize a UT paradigm where participants are divided into CT and UT groups: the CT group reflects on the task, while the UT group engages in a distraction. However, UT effect is inconsistent across studies. This study aims to explore the condition under which UT effect works and how to facilitate it. By manipulating performance-contingent reward, this study compared the creativity of UT and CT in reward and non-reward conditions under a modified UT paradigm (<i>N</i> = 179). Creativity was measured by a divergent thinking task (the unusual uses task). Results indicated the fluency and originality in the reward condition were higher than non-reward condition for the UT group. What's more, UT surpassed CT in fluency and originality only in the reward condition. This study extends UT theory and provides insights in maximizing the benefits of UT, enabling individuals to boost creativity without thinking consciously or consuming working memory resources.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143513846","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}
Pui Yi Mok, Hsueh-Hua Chuang, Ming-Min Cheng, Thomas J. Smith
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence Assisted Creativity: Conceptualization, Instrument Development and Validation","authors":"Pui Yi Mok, Hsueh-Hua Chuang, Ming-Min Cheng, Thomas J. Smith","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Considering the pivotal role of creativity across various eras and the rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in both creative processes and education, this study introduces and provides validity evidence for the AI-assisted Creativity Questionnaire (AICQ). This new 16-item instrument aims to quantify human creative potential in AI-assisted endeavors. Initially, a diverse cohort of 322 university students in Taiwan completed the AICQ from November to December 2023. Through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of responses from this sample, three distinct factors emerged: (1) AI-assisted functional creativity (AIFC), (2) AI-assisted visual artistic creativity (AIVAC), and (3) AI-assisted ideational creativity (AIIC). One item was removed due to cross-loading. Subsequently, in September 2024, 330 university students in Taiwan engaged with both the AICQ and the 28-item Creative Behavior Inventory (CBI). Based on responses from this sample, construct validity evidence for the AICQ was examined using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), which affirmed that a three-factor model provided a good fit to the data. Gender differences in AICQ scores were found in these subsequent data. Overall, data from participants provided evidence for the reliability as well as convergent, concurrent, and discriminant validity of the scores obtained from the AICQ.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143513847","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: Opportunities, Challenges, and Cautions","authors":"Baptiste Barbot, James C. Kaufman","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The OECD's PISA program assesses 15-year-old students globally in key competencies every 3 years, providing influential data on education quality and spurring policy debates. In the latest cycle, the innovation domain focused on creative thinking, assessing over 140,000 students across 60+ countries, in the largest study of adolescent creativity to date. This innovation domain included a cognitive test covering multiple creative thinking processes (generating creative ideas, generating diverse ideas, and evaluating/improving ideas) and creativity domains (written expression, visual expression, social problem-solving, and scientific problem-solving), as well as an extensive survey on factors influencing creativity (such as openness, creative self-efficacy, or growth mindset). While this dataset offers unprecedented research opportunities due to its scale and international scope, challenges arise from its aggregated scoring and complex sampling design. Missteps in using this data in secondary analyses could lead to fragmented and inconsistent findings. This paper provides an overview of the PISA 2022 creative thinking assessment's framework, methods, and findings, highlighting both the potential and the caution needed for impactful creativity research.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143513852","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 Overlooking of Subtractive Changes: Replication and Extension to Stronger Cues and Social Norms","authors":"Adrien Alejandro Fillon, Fabien Girandola, Nathalie Bonnardel, Lionel Souchet","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1535","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>People systematically overlook subtractive changes and favor additive ones when reporting new ideas. In a first preregistered experiment conducted via the Prolific platform among French adults (<i>N</i> = 477), we replicated experiments 2, 3, and 4 in Adams et al.'s study. We replicated the overlooking of subtraction, as participants reported 1155 additive ideas and only 297 subtractive ideas. Cueing participants (“Remember that you can add things or take them away”) increased the percentage of participants who reported at least one subtractive idea (overall OR = 2.52, improvement condition, <i>ϕ</i> = 0.18, make it worse condition, <i>ϕ</i> = 0.24). In a second experiment conducted to test how the framing of the cue influences the overlook, participants reported more subtractive ideas when they read a subtract-only cue (“remember that you can take things away”), than with a subtract-then-add cue. Results therefore provided empirical support for the overlooking of subtractive changes hypothesis, mitigated by a cue. We also found that norms affected the report of new ideas (descriptive OR = 7.49, injunctive OR = 6.86). Cues and injunctive (but not descriptive) norms were both related to the asymmetry.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143481533","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}
Xiaochen Liu, Gregory T. Boldt, Donald J. Leu, James C. Kaufman
{"title":"Two's Company: How Academic Diversity in Dyads Enhances Divergent Thinking","authors":"Xiaochen Liu, Gregory T. Boldt, Donald J. Leu, James C. Kaufman","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1539","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Group diversity is an active topic in research as studies examine how differences in background, culture, job position, gender, and ethnicity can all impact group creativity. One relatively overlooked component is how diversity in academic knowledge affects group and individual creativity. In this study, 56 graduate students from a research university in the United States were paired into a dyad with another academically similar or diverse student. They then took the Alternate Uses Test (AUT) alone, as a team, and then alone again. The AUT was used to obtain three divergent thinking scores—fluency, flexibility, and originality. The scores were analyzed to determine if graduate students in academically diverse dyads worked better together (and, subsequently, alone) compared to academically similar dyads. The results showed that academically diverse dyads had significantly higher scores on originality for both increases in individual task scores and the team creativity task, as well as higher fluency scores compared to academically similar dyads. In addition, the results suggest that academically similar and diverse dyads demonstrate varying patterns of fluency and originality scores over time. Results indicated that embracing academic diversity can lead to both dyads and, subsequently, individuals being more productive in generating novel ideas.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143481508","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}