Creative ideation, broad retrieval ability, and processing speed: A confirmatory study of nested cognitive abilities

Forthmann, Boris; Jendryczko, David; Scharfen, Jana; Kleinkorres, Ruben; Benedek, Mathias

doi:10.1016/j.intell.2019.04.006

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“…To be more specific, processing fluency, an indicator of the metacognitive experience which has always been used in previous studies, could be divided into perceptual fluency, encoding fluency, and retrieval fluency, whereas these distinct types of processing fluency may have different effects on different types of creative thinking (Koriat et al, 2004). For example, the AUT, which requires individuals to generate as many novel ideas as possible, was relied on the fast and effective strategic memory retrieval ability (Forthmann et al, 2019). That is, the retrieval fluency could play a key role in the creative ideas production.…”

Section: Metacognitive Experience and Creative Thinkingmentioning

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The Role of Metacognitive Components in Creative Thinking

Jia

Cao

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Metacognition refers to the knowledge and regulation of one’s own cognitive processes, which has been regarded as a critical component of creative thinking. However, the current literature on the association between metacognition and creative thinking remains controversial, and the underlying role of metacognition in the creative process appears to be insufficiently explored and explained. This review focuses on the roles of three aspects of metacognition (i.e., metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive experience, and metacognitive monitoring and control) in creative thinking and offers a primary summary of the neurocognitive mechanisms that support metacognition during creative thinking. Future research is needed to explore the interactive effects of the metacognitive components on creative thinking and to elucidate the function of metacognition during different stages of the creative process.

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Section: Metacognitive Experience and Creative Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Metacognitive Components in Creative Thinking

Jia

Cao

2019

Front. Psychol.

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“…Moreover, wit was the only comic style positively correlated with verbal intelligence (Ruch et al, 2018). Creative ideation has been found to involve various verbal ability demands such as associative abilities assessed in word association tasks (e.g., Benedek et al, 2012) or broad retrieval ability measured by means of various verbal fluency tests (e.g., Silvia et al, 2013;Forthmann et al, 2019). Likewise, verbal intelligence-related demands are also implicated in the capability to create humor (as assessed by a cartoon caption task; Greengross and Miller, 2011).…”

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Motivational Factors in the Typical Display of Humor and Creative Potential: The Case of Malevolent Creativity

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Research is still disputing if an individual's use of humor in everyday life is also indicative of his or her creative potential. To date, the focus has been mainly restricted to shared cognitive factors, while motivational aspects that may link the production of humor and of creative ideas have been largely neglected. Humor motivation implicates latent social goals the creator pursues through the use of humor. These goals can be benign or more malicious and manifest in an individual's typical display of comic styles. While often overlooked, creativity often serves social functions as well, especially in common everyday situations. Similar to humor, creativity is typically regarded as beneficial for individuals and society. Yet, creative ideas may also originate from less prosocial goals. This is reflected in the concept of malevolent creativity, where novel ideas are generated to deliberately harm others. The present study investigated individuals' typical display of humor, differentiated in eight distinct comic styles in relation to their productivity in a behavioral test for malevolent creativity and general creative potential (n = 106). Individuals with higher scores on comic styles that are affiliated with malicious interpersonal goals-such as hurting or upsetting others or demonstrating superiority over others-were more fluent in producing malevolent creative ideas in the malevolent creativity test. This finding shows that individual differences in humor motivation relate to the capacity of coming up with relevant creative ideas also outside the domain of humor. The pattern of relationships between humor motivation and general creative potential differed from that of malicious creativity and implied the comic style "wit" only, primarily adding to the notion of shared cognitive processes in the production of humor and creative ideas. The study offers a novel perspective for how the inclusion of motivational factors that are inherent to conceptualizations of humor may also benefit creativity research.

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“…We assume that differentiation will also not appear for other aspects/factors of creativity (e.g., originality) and intelligence (e.g., crystallized intelligence; Sligh et al, 2005). Nevertheless, studying such aspects in the future in general-for example the relation of general retrieval ability, creative retrieval and crystallized intelligence (e.g., Forthmann et al, 2019), or the overlap between fluency and originality-is interesting to further our understanding of cognitive abilities and its relation with creativity.…”

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A Reappraisal of the Threshold Hypothesis of Creativity and Intelligence

Weiss¹,

Steger²,

Schroeders³

et al. 2020

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Intelligence has been declared as a necessary, but not sufficient condition for creativity, which was subsequently translated into the so-called threshold hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts a change in the correlation between creativity and intelligence at around 1.33 standard deviations above population mean. Closer inspection of previous results—that report different thresholds or no threshold at all—suggests that a divergence is mostly due to the use of suboptimal data-analytical procedures. We apply and compare three methods that allow a continuous consideration of intelligence (e.g., local structural equation models that allows a latent variable analysis). Based on two multivariate studies (N1 = 456; N2 = 438) we examine the threshold of the creativity-intelligence relation with: a) scatterplots and heteroscedasticity analysis, b) segmented regression analysis, and c) local structural equation models. In sum, we found no evidence for the threshold hypothesis of creativity across different analytical approaches in both studies. Given the problematic history of the threshold hypothesis and its unequivocal rejection with appropriate multivariate methods we recommend to abandon the threshold once and for all.

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Creative ideation, broad retrieval ability, and processing speed: A confirmatory study of nested cognitive abilities

Cited by 77 publications

References 85 publications

The Role of Metacognitive Components in Creative Thinking

The Role of Metacognitive Components in Creative Thinking

Motivational Factors in the Typical Display of Humor and Creative Potential: The Case of Malevolent Creativity

A Reappraisal of the Threshold Hypothesis of Creativity and Intelligence

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