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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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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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Thi Vinh Tran Nguyen; Hoai Than Nguyen; Thi Xuan Nong; Thi Thanh Truc Nguyen – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Based on well-known concepts, including organizational creativity, inclusive leadership theories as well as the input-process-output and its extended version, the current study investigated the effects an inclusive leadership style had on creative teaching through the mediating roles of intra-school knowledge sharing and innovative climate. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Creative Teaching, High School Teachers
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Maksic, Slavica B.; Spasenovic, Vera Z. – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
This article presents the results of research into the implicit theories of creativity of Educational Science students preparing for the role of educational counsellors. Educational Science students will soon be working in educational institutions where they are expected to support creativity. Prospective (pre)school counsellors were asked about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Seniors, Education Majors, Student Attitudes
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Malycha, Charlotte P.; Maier, Günter W. – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Although creativity techniques are highly recommended in working environments, their effects have been scarcely investigated. Two cognitive processes are often considered to foster creative potential and are, therefore, taken as a basis for creativity techniques: knowledge activation and conceptual combination. In this study, both processes were…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Cognitive Processes
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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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Tan, Tengteng; Zou, Hong; Chen, Chuansheng; Luo, Jin – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Although many anecdotes suggest that creative insights often arise during mind wandering, empirical research is still sparse. In this study, the number reduction task (NRT) was used to assess whether insightful solutions were related to mind wandering during the incubation stage of the creative process. An experience sampling paradigm was used to…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Creativity, Higher Education, College Students
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Galati, Francesco – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
This work is part of the debate regarding the possibility to judge the creativity of a particular object (an idea, a painting, an industrial product, etc.), by expert or nonexpert raters, with the same results or not. The study is focused on the concept "complexity of judgment" considered fundamental to fully understand the problem. The…
Descriptors: Creativity, Convergent Thinking, Expertise, Creativity Tests
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Zmigrod, Sharon; Colzato, Lorenza S.; Hommel, Bernhard – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Creativity has been conceptualized as involving 2 distinct components; divergent thinking, the search for multiple solutions to a single problem, and convergent thinking, the quest for a single solution either through an analytical process or the experience of insight. Studies have demonstrated that these abilities can be improved by cognitive…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Creative Teaching
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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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Simper, Natalie; Reeve, Richard; Kirby, J. R. – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
This research tested the use of concept map planning to support the development of creativity in photo stories, hypothesizing that skills taught to support organization would improve creativity. Concept maps are a type of graphic organizer, used to represent an ordering of ideas with nodes and linking words that form propositional statements. They…
Descriptors: Creativity, Photography, Concept Mapping, Instructional Materials
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Maslany, George – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Arthur Cropley's academic career began in the early 1960s and, more than 50 years later, shows few signs of abating. Over this lengthy period, he has made important contributions not only to creativity research, but to a range of related areas of psychology. Arthur Cropley has also been an influential figure in the careers of several generations…
Descriptors: Careers, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Teaching
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Fearon, Danielle D.; Copeland, Daelynn; Saxon, Terrill F. – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between parenting styles and creativity among a sample of Jamaican students and their parents. A total of 54 parents and 66 students participated in the study. Results revealed that the authoritarian style of parenting is the most salient predictor of creativity in children and that this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parenting Styles, Creativity, Correlation
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Fabricatore, Carlo; López, Ximena – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
The increasing demand for creative individuals in the labor market requires well-prepared professionals, capable of enhancing competitiveness through new ideas and innovative actions. Educational programs should, therefore, rely on approaches and learning environments that foster creativity. In this study, video game development projects were used…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Games, Video Games, Material Development
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