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Direct linkCamarda, Anaëlle; Bouhours, Lison; Osmont, Anaïs; Le Masson, Pascal; Weil, Benoît; Borst, Grégoire; Cassotti, Mathieu – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
The aim of the present study was to examine how social evaluation influences creative idea generation, and whether this effect develops with age. To do so, early adolescents, middle adolescents, and late adolescents performed a creative task either alone or under the supervision of an adult examiner. Three major findings emerged: 1) the social…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Collins, Maurice James D'Arcy – Creativity Research Journal, 2020
Where do novel ideas come from? What mental processes facilitate them? The disinhibition hypothesis suggests creative cognition can be assisted by reducing cognitive inhibition of ideas, facilitating looser associative thoughts to bond with one another to produce novel concepts. Past exploration of the disinhibition hypothesis has been drawn from…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking
Wu, Ching-Lin; Chen, Hsueh-Chih – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
Both creativity and humor are high-level cognitive functions and complex concepts. Although creativity and humor are generally deemed positively correlated, it has been difficult to explicitly identify their relationship with each other. The cognitive process of creativity includes divergent thinking, insight, and remote association, whereas humor…
Descriptors: Creativity, Humor, Cognitive Ability, Correlation
Chiang, Noelle C.; Chen, Meng-Liang – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Studies on whether fixation cues provided in the first episode of divergent thinking tasks influence creative outcomes after incubation, as they do for convergent problem-solving tasks, remain limited. This research examined the beneficial effects of incubation using the delayed- and immediate-incubation paradigms. Participants in Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Cues, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Task Analysis
Skalicky, Stephen; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Muldner, Kasia – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Creativity is commonly assessed using divergent thinking tasks, which measure the fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration of participant output on a variety of different tasks. This study assesses the degree to which creativity can be identified based on linguistic features of participants' language while completing collaborative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Linguistics
Leikin, Mark; Tovli, Esther – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
This study examined the possible effect of bilingualism on creativity in nonmathematical and mathematical problem solving among bilingual and monolingual preschoolers. Two groups of children (M age = 71.9 months, SD = 3.6) from the same monolingual kindergartens participated in this study: 15 Russian/Hebrew balanced bilinguals and 16 native…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Creativity, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
