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Stephen Anderson; C. Daryl Cameron; Roger E. Beaty – Creativity Research Journal, 2025
Empathy research has long emphasized accuracy when imagining other minds. We explore whether empathy can be a creative process, where people think of multiple diverging possibilities of others' experiences. We developed two tasks to measure creative empathy. First, we adapted "forward flow" to measure the dynamic unfolding of creativity…
Descriptors: Adults, Empathy, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
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Quentin Raffaelli; Rudy Malusa; Nadia-Anais de Stefano; Eric Andrews; Matthew D. Grilli; Caitlin Mills; Darya L. Zabelina; Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Despite an established body of research characterizing how creative individuals explore their "external" world, relatively little is known about how such individuals navigate their "inner mental life", especially in unstructured contexts such as periods of awake rest. Across two studies, the present manuscript tested the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Creativity
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Adam E. Green; Roger E. Beaty; Yoed N. Kenett; James C. Kaufman – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
The "standard" definition of creativity as novel and useful describes creative products, but creativity is constituted by processes. This misalignment contributes to the oft-noted challenges of operationalizing creativity. Here, we distinguish creativity as a process from creativity as an attribute (i.e. "creative-ness").…
Descriptors: Creativity, Definitions, Neurosciences, Cognitive Processes
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Gerben Tolkamp; Bart Verwaeren; Tim Vriend; Aart-Jan Riekhoff; Bernard Nijstad – Creativity Research Journal, 2025
Scholars view the creative process as a sequence of activities (e.g. problem construction, information search, idea generation, and idea development) that unfolds over time. This implies that time plays an important role in creativity. Unfortunately, however, the field lacks clear and explicit propositions about the temporal aspects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Education, College Students, Creative Development
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Roni Reiter-Palmon; Salvatore Leone; Emanuel Schreiner – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Contradictions and competing demands are common in everyday problems. To address these problems, individuals need to both recognize and integrate these contradictions during problem-solving to find creative solutions. We propose that recognition and integration take place in the problem construction phase of the creative problem-solving process.…
Descriptors: College Students, Psychological Studies, Problem Solving, Creativity
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Catrinel Tromp – Creativity Research Journal, 2025
Integrating research from cognitive, social, organizational, and developmental psychology, the present article builds on the idea that constraints play a key role in creativity. The Mr. Plumbean approach, which refers to the willing integration of focusing constraints for creative purposes, emphasizes the role of attitude toward constraints in…
Descriptors: Creativity, Diversity, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Behavior
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Zorana Ivcevic; Eliana R. Grossman; Katherine N. Cotter; Emily Nusbaum – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
How are creative ideas transformed into creative behavior, products, and achievements? We posit that this transformation is facilitated by self-regulation of creativity. The present study develops a self-report scale and provides initial evidence of validity in assessing two major aspects of self-regulation of creativity: expectations about the…
Descriptors: Adults, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Creative Development
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Mark A. Runco; Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi; Selcuk Acar; Alaa Eldin A. Ayoub – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
Creative potential is one of the most important topics for research. It is difficult to study because, unlike creative products, potential is by definition latent. There are several useful methods. One involves comparing creative activity expressed in various settings. Previous research has, for example, compared creativity expressed in school…
Descriptors: Creativity, Aptitude, Environmental Influences, Educational Environment
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Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele; Glaveanu, Vlad Petre – Creativity Research Journal, 2020
In this article, the notion of potential as discussed within creativity research is examined. It is noted that there are multiple, sometimes competing, understandings of potential within the literature with the biggest gaps existing between individual perspectives, on the one hand, and sociocultural perspectives on the other. Affirming that a…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, Definitions, Classification
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Glaveanu, Vlad P.; Beghetto, Ronald A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
We propose a working definition of creative experience that involves principled engagement with the unfamiliar and a willingness to approach the familiar in unfamiliar ways. In other words, a creative experience can be defined as novel person world encounters grounded in meaningful actions and interactions, which are marked by the principles of:…
Descriptors: Creativity, Definitions, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Experience
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Brandt, Anthony – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
Over several decades, novel-and-appropriate has become established as the standard definition of creativity; while allowing for variations in the exact wording, the requirement that creativity requires external validation of value, utility, etc. is largely unchallenged. This functions well in high consensus fields in which value can be empirically…
Descriptors: Creativity, Definitions, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Creative Development
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Reisman, Fredricka; Keiser, Larry; Otti, Obinna – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
The Reisman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment (RDCA) is a free online self-report creativity assessment that provides immediate feedback to the user and is diagnostic, rather than predictive, with the focus on making the user aware of creative strengths and weaknesses. Several engineering and teacher education studies have included the RDCA over a…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Creative Development, Computer Oriented Programs
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Park, Namgyoo K.; Chun, Monica Youngshin; Lee, Jinju – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
Compared to the significant development of creativity studies, individual creativity research has not reached a meaningful consensus regarding the most valid and reliable method for assessing individual creativity. This study revisited 2 of the most popular methods for assessing individual creativity: subjective and objective methods. This study…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Creative Thinking
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Andreas, Stuart F. K.; Zech, Stefan; Coyle, Thomas R.; Rindermann, Heiner – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
Creativity is negatively associated with certain personality traits (e.g., conformity) and social influences (e.g., group pressure). In this study, creativity was examined in relation to unconventionality, which was expected to correlate positively with creativity, especially originality. This hypothesis was based on the theory that unconventional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality, Personality Traits, Creativity
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Simonton, Dean Keith – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Arthur Cropley (2006) emphasized the critical place that convergent thinking has in creativity. Although he briefly refers to the blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory of creativity, his discussion could not reflect the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in BVSR, especially the resulting combinatorial models.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes
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