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Lebuda, Izabela; Sorokowski, Piotr; Groyecka-Bernard, Agata; Marczak, Michalina; Gajda, Aleksandra; Jankowska, Dorota M.; Karwowski, Maciej – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
This study provides an empirical test of the relationship between creative potential, mating, and reproductive success in a sample using natural methods of fertility control: the Meru tribe living in the regions of Laare and Mutuati in Kenya. The participants (N = 133; 65 females) solved a figural creativity test (the Test of Creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tribes, Creativity, Birth
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Chi, Nai-Wen; Liao, Hsueh-Hua; Chien, Wan-Ling – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Although recent studies have attempted to clarify the daily dynamics between moods and creativity, relatively limited studies have explored how daily positive and negative activating moods influence "changes" in daily creativity (i.e., controlling for the effects of prior daily creativity) in real organizations. Furthermore, although the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Physical Environment
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Acar, Selcuk; Tadik, Harun; Myers, Danielle; van der Sman, Carian; Uysal, Recep – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Creativity and well-being are popular subjects in psychological and organizational studies. The recent literature presented mixed perspectives about the nature of the relationship between the two. Whereas the mad-genius hypothesis, which was often explored among eminently creative individuals, seems to imply a negative relationship between the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Well Being, Meta Analysis, Predictor Variables
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Acar, Selcuk; Neumayer, Michelle; Burnett, Cynthia – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
This study explored the relationship between social media (SM) use and creativity. The data collected from 407 participants included indicators such as time spent using SM, frequency of SM use, purposes for using SM, and the nature of SM use. The data involved two aspects of creativity: ideational behavior and creative activity and accomplishment.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Media, Creativity, Creative Activities
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Weatherford, Dawn R.; Esparza, Lemira V.; Tedder, Laura J.; Smith, Olivia K. H. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Functional fixedness involves difficulty with conceptualizing creative object uses. When it obstructs problem-solving, individuals must reframe their approach. We examined how different training techniques--chunk decomposition (i.e., considering an object's basic parts and physical properties) and constraint relaxation (i.e., considering an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Creativity, Problem Solving
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Li, Ci-Rong; Yang, Yanyu; Lin, Chen-Ju; Xu, Ying – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
Integrating the dynamic self-regulatory framework with the motivational self-regulation perspective, we theorize and test how and when creative self-efficacy increases individual creativity at the within-person level. Conceptualizing creative process engagement as a self-regulation effort, we theorize that creative process engagement mediates the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Efficacy, Metacognition, Research and Development
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Davis, Thomas J.; Fichtenholtz, Harlan M. – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
This research explored the relationship between mental fatigue and creativity by testing the creative potential of 25 Keene State College students, half of which were subjected to mental fatigue. Little research has been done to look at these 2 variables together, but considerable research has been done on them individually. Using an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Stress Variables, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests
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Carlsson, Ingegerd; Davidson, Per; Ors, Marianne – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
The effect of napping versus wakefulness was studied on primed and repeated Remote Associate Tests (RATs) and on divergent creativity tests. The participants were 42 students from the USA, studying international courses at a Swedish university. The hypotheses for the RATs were (1), when the correct answers were primed before the nap, the RAT…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Sleep, Creativity Tests
Maria Jesus Avitia – ProQuest LLC, 2019
When a student has a learning disability in reading and or dyslexia, interventions focus on remediating the weakness. Positive psychology is a field of psychology that looks to help people, based on harnessing a person's strengths, to create better outcomes. Strengths-based or asset-based interventions have been used with people with developmental…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Dyslexia, Spatial Ability, Creativity
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Blankenship, Bethany – Student Success, 2020
This practice report discusses the term "bricolage" and its relationship to student learning. The positive and negative perceptions of teachers and students as "bricoleurs" (those who practice bricolage) are discussed. An exploratory study that examines the application of bricolage in the classroom is discussed. In two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Knowledge Level, Creativity
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Glaveanu, Vlad Petre; Hanchett Hanson, Michael; Baer, John; Barbot, Baptiste; Clapp, Edward P.; Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele; Hennessey, Beth; Kaufman, James C.; Lebuda, Izabela; Lubart, Todd; Montuori, Alfonso; Ness, Ingunn J.; Plucker, Jonathan; Reiter-Palmon, Roni; Sierra, Zayda; Simonton, Dean Keith; Neves-Pereira, Monica Souza; Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
This manifesto, discussed by 20 scholars, representing diverse lines of creativity research, marks a conceptual shift within the field. Socio-cultural approaches have made substantial contributions to the concept of creativity over recent decades and today can provide a set of propositions to guide our understanding of past research and to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Sociocultural Patterns, Scholarship, Futures (of Society)
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Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2020
The current research study utilized a case study research method to test the theory that the creativity and innovative processes are a complex adaptive system. Through qualitative interviews with renowned creators, the current study categorized the data into eight characteristics of complex adaptive systems: path dependent, systems have a history,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Systems Approach, Evaluation Methods
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Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
This article describes a "straight-A" model of the creative process. It characterizes the creative process in five overlapping phases, with the variables most affecting those phases characterized as: (1) activators, (2) abilities, (3) amplifiers, (4) appeal to audience, and (5) assessment by audience. The creative process does not…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Creativity, Audiences, Correlation
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Mi, Shuaishuai; Bi, Hualin; Lu, Shanshan – Creativity Research Journal, 2020
This study aimed to identify trends and foundations of creativity research in education using the Structural Topic Model (STM). First, English-language journal articles about creativity research in education included in the Social Science Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded databases were selected. Then, considering semantic…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Research, Correlation, Incidence
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Barnett, Ronald – Higher Education Quarterly, 2020
The Creative University is susceptible to multiple interpretations which are moving in a fluid conceptual space. This conceptual openness can be adequately understood only as a set of discursive formations that reflect underlying societal changes. It is becoming a commonplace to suggest that creativity should no longer be seen as a matter of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Universities, Social Change, Economics
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