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Kim, Sang Kyun; Shin, Shung Jae; Shin, Jiseon; Miller, Douglas R. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2018
This article addresses the theoretical limitations of social network theory as it applies to individual creativity. Social network theory implicitly assumes that social interactions influence creativity identically for all individuals in all circumstances. We argue that the extent to which individuals take advantage of their social ties may vary…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Creativity, Role, Individual Differences
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Kühn, Simone; Ritter, Simone M.; Müller, Barbara C. N.; van Baaren, Rick B.; Brass, Marcel; Dijksterhuis, Ap – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2014
Anecdotal reports as well as behavioral studies have suggested that creative performance benefits from unconscious processes. So far, however, little is known about how creative ideas arise from the brain. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the neural correlates of creativity by means of structural MRI research. Given that unconscious…
Descriptors: Creativity, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
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Storme, Martin; Lubart, Todd – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2012
The aim of this study is to describe naive conceptions of creativity and offer some explanation for their variability. Two methods are used to analyze conceptions of creativity. The first one consists of analyzing adjectives that are associated by naive judges with the notion of creativity of an advertisement. The second one consists of predicting…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Creativity, Personality, Intelligence
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Chen, Chuansheng; Himsel, Amy; Kasof, Joseph; Greenberger, Ellen; Dmitrieva, Julia – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2006
This study investigated correlates of domain-general and domain-specific components of creativity. 158 college students completed a questionnaire that assessed their motivational and personality traits (i.e., intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, creative personality, and originality in word association) as well as intellectual abilities (SAT verbal…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Creativity, Structural Equation Models, Incentives