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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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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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To, Siu-ming; Chun-Sing Cheung, Johnson; Liu, Xiaoyu; Lau, Cheryl Danielle; Zeng, Hera Junfei; Chan, Adam Man-yuk – Youth & Society, 2021
This study examined the moderating effect of youth-adult partnerships (YAPs) on the relationship between youth empowerment in the community and youth's creative self-efficacy (CSE). A survey was administered to 2,653 youth recruited from youth service centers in Hong Kong, which measured youth empowerment in the community, perceived YAPs in youth…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Creative Development, Creativity, Self Efficacy
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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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O'Connor, Alexander J.; Nemeth, Charlan J.; Akutsu, Satoshi – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
Attempts to maximize creativity pervade corporate, artistic, and scientific domains. This research investigated how individual's lay beliefs about the malleability of creativity affect several measures of creative potential. Two correlational and 1 experimental study examined the relationship between malleability beliefs about creativity and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Creativity, Correlation, Foreign Countries
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Schum, Nina; Franz, Volker H.; Jovanovic, Bianca; Schwarzer, Gudrun – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
We investigated whether 6- and 7-year-olds and 9- and 10-year-olds, as well as adults, process object dimensions independent of or in interaction with one another in a perception and action task by adapting Ganel and Goodale's method for testing adults ("Nature", 2003, Vol. 426, pp. 664-667). In addition, we aimed to confirm Ganel and Goodale's…
Descriptors: Evidence, Handicrafts, Visual Perception, Interaction
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Taylor, Diana – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1980
Freudian and Jungian theories are considered in terms of poetry, and suggestions are made for teaching the basics of poetry to adults for creative development. Focusing and free association activities are discussed. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Creative Development, Creativity, Poetry
Cox, June; Daniel, Neil – G/C/T, 1984
The article describes replies to a questionnaire by recipients of the MacArthur Fellows Program, an award given to individuals with uncommon abilities across a wide spectrum of creative pursuits. Replies touch on school and family backgrounds, acceleration, importance of grades, recognition of achievement, extracurricular activities, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Creative Development, Creativity, Gifted
Weiss, Ruth Palombo – Training & Development, 2001
Discusses four stages of creativity--exploring, inventing, choosing, and implementing--that can help people make connections that others miss. Lists specific ways in which companies can encourage creativity in their employees. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Creative Development, Creativity, Staff Development
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Keegan, Robert T. – New Directions for Child Development, 1996
Uses Darwin's evolution theory as put forth in "The Descent of Man" as an analogy to explain the relationship between creativity in childhood and adulthood, concentrating on source and continuity. Also discusses creativity in childhood and differences between children's and adults' creativity. (DR)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
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Eddowes, E. Anne – Childhood Education, 1987
Presents an annotated filmography of films and videotapes that provide parents and teachers with an understanding of the importance of "process" in providing the experiences needed to foster children's creative development in the visual arts. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Adults, Childrens Art, Creative Development, Filmographies
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Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1999
This article analyzes an essay by Joseph Renzulli reviewing his work on gifted models by using the career of Renzulli himself as a case study of the components of creative, productive giftedness. It finds that creatively gifted individuals must face challenges that are formalized in the Sternberg and Lubart investment theory of creativity.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Creative Development, Creativity
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Carson, Paula Phillips; Carson, Kerry D. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1993
Effects of goal setting and feedback on creative productivity (as measured by both creativity emphasis and quantity emphasis) of 54 subjects found that feedback improved creativity performance of subjects with creativity goals, creativity feedback was more valued than feedback relating to quantity goals, goal commitment was increased by feedback,…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Creative Development, Creativity
Torrance, E. Paul – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1980
The author discusses preliminary findings from a 22 year follow-up of adolescent and adult creative behavior of 220 persons from the original elementary student sample. Having a childhood future career image that persisted and having a mentor were consistently related to five criteria of creative achievement. (CL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Adults, Creative Development
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Sasser-Coen, Jennifer R. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1993
This paper proposes that, contrary to the idea that creativity declines during the second half of life, observed changes may actually reflect qualitative changes in the creative process. Life span developmental theory is used to examine empirical and theoretical ideas about mature forms of thinking in relation to creativity. (DB)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Creative Development, Creativity
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