{"title":"Are Creative People More Susceptible to False Memory? Evidence for Age- and Task-Related Differences.","authors":"J T West, S A Luchini, R E Beaty, N A Dennis","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2026.2703186","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10400419.2026.2703186","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior research suggests that people high in quantitative divergent thinking - the ability to fluently and flexibly generate original ideas - are more likely to falsely recognize novel yet related items. However, it remains unknown whether this relationship extends to later life, when memory errors are salient. We investigated this in a sample that completed multiple measures of these constructs (<i>n</i> = 334, 138 older adults, 196 younger adults). Although we observed a positive association between quantitative divergent thinking and false recognition on one of our four memory tasks, this relationship applied only to younger adults, and was restricted to one of our two divergent thinking cues. Evidence for this association at the latent level was mixed in that it was nonsignificant for related lure false recognition and significant but restricted to younger adults for corrected false recognition (β = 0.17 to 0.22). Additionally, we observed a <i>negative</i> relationship between latent originality and false recognition in younger adults, suggesting that younger adults who generate more original ideas are <i>less</i> susceptible to false memory. These results suggest that although divergent thinking and false memory may be positively related on some tasks, this relationship may be sensitive to task and age differences.</p>","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13557035/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148921314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abigail L Cosgrove, Michele T Diaz, Paul V DiStefano, Yoed N Kenett, Roger E Beaty
{"title":"Associative thinking and creative ability in older adulthood.","authors":"Abigail L Cosgrove, Michele T Diaz, Paul V DiStefano, Yoed N Kenett, Roger E Beaty","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2443720","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2443720","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Successful problem-solving and enhanced creative ability may improve physical health, cognitive well-being, and overall independence of older adults. In general, older adults who are more creative, may be better able to cope with cognitive decline and navigate everyday tasks. While previous research on creative performance in older adulthood showed age-related stability, open questions remain regarding the specific underlying cognitive basis for this invariability across the lifespan. Mediation analyses showed that intelligence measures served as underlying cognitive mechanisms for the stability of creative thinking in older age. The broader implications of these findings provide insight into the complex relationships supporting age-related preservation in creativity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12334185/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Psyche Loui, Corinna Parrish, Xiaotong Eva Wu, Jethro Lee, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
{"title":"Sequence Generation and Evaluation: A Novel Assessment of Musical Creativity.","authors":"Psyche Loui, Corinna Parrish, Xiaotong Eva Wu, Jethro Lee, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2425494","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2425494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Music is often considered an important domain for creativity. Traditional studies of musical creativity have examined musical improvisation using jazz as a model. While this approach has yielded many valuable insights about creativity's cognitive and neural mechanisms, it has limited the study sample to those with the means to engage in improvisation within one specific Western style. Here we introduce a novel tool for assessing musical creativity in the broader sample of individuals with no specialized training. In two experiments (n = 165) we show that this sequencer can be used in people with minimal training to generate a database of sequences composed in the Bohlen-Pierce scale, and to evaluate them for creativity. Results show that creativity ratings are predicted by length of melodies, number of distinct pitches used, and information content of pitch intervals. Results also show some external validity with existing creativity tasks. We advocate the use of this sequencer in creativity research, as it provides a theoretically motivated, rigorous tool to examine the iterative process of producing and evaluating musical creativity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12487668/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145214026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaowen Wang, Yiwen Zhang, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Weiguo Pang
{"title":"Evaluating Drawings’ Creativity: Synchrony Effects on Rater Bias and the Mediating Role of Emotional Arousal","authors":"Xiaowen Wang, Yiwen Zhang, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Weiguo Pang","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2394316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2394316","url":null,"abstract":"Creativity evaluation, particularly rating the creativity of products, is an unstable construct subjective to the influence of various individual states and characteristics. However, little researc...","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142193557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inaugural Issue of CRJ as the Journal of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity: Introduction to Volume 2 of the Special Issue","authors":"Adam E. Green","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2385225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2385225","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Creativity Research Journal (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2024)","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creativity in the West and the East: A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Differences","authors":"Philipp Barth, Georg Stadtmann","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2369442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2369442","url":null,"abstract":"Cross-cultural differences in individual creativity have been examined extensively, particularly between Western and Eastern cultures, but empirical evidence has been mixed. In an attempt to clarif...","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raquel Lezama, Carlos J. Gómez-Ariza, M. Teresa Bajo
{"title":"Dissociating Semantic Integration and Inhibitory Control in the Remote Associates Test: A tDCS-EEG Study","authors":"Raquel Lezama, Carlos J. Gómez-Ariza, M. Teresa Bajo","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2373593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2373593","url":null,"abstract":"Neuromodulation was utilized here to investigate the distinct involvement of two recognized cortical hubs for semantic integration (the left anterior temporal lobe, lATL) and inhibitory control (th...","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":"164 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141745370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea P. Francis, Mareike B. Wieth, Gabrielle Henrikson
{"title":"Narcissism Mediates the Relationship Between Helicopter Parenting and Divergent Creativity, but Not Convergent Creativity","authors":"Andrea P. Francis, Mareike B. Wieth, Gabrielle Henrikson","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2371720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2371720","url":null,"abstract":"This study contrasts the relationship between helicopter parenting, narcissistic traits, and divergent creativity to the relationship between helicopter parenting, narcissistic traits, and converge...","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Denis Dumas, Yixiao Dong, Sofiia Kagan, W. Keith Campbell
{"title":"Exploring the Creative Personality: Using Machine Learning to Predict Fluency and Originality in Divergent Thinking","authors":"Denis Dumas, Yixiao Dong, Sofiia Kagan, W. Keith Campbell","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2371725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2371725","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, 100 self-reported personality items from the Big Five Aspects Scale, responded to by a sample of 334 undergraduate participants, were used to predict quantity (ideational fluency) an...","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gregory T. Boldt, Zorana Ivcevic, James C. Kaufman
{"title":"Do You Think You Are Creative? Patterns of Self-Perceived Creativity in Adolescents and Young Adults","authors":"Gregory T. Boldt, Zorana Ivcevic, James C. Kaufman","doi":"10.1080/10400419.2024.2371261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2371261","url":null,"abstract":"An important step in understanding domain-specific qualities of creativity is determining what patterns exist in self-perceived creativity across domains and how these patterns associate with other...","PeriodicalId":48144,"journal":{"name":"Creativity Research Journal","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141587239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}