Flexible humor styles and the creative mind: Using a typological approach to investigate the relationship between humor styles and creativity.

Chang, Jen Ho; Chen, Hsueh Chih; Hsu, Chin Chun; Chan, Yu-Chen; Chang, Yu Lin

doi:10.1037/a0039527

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“…Yet, individuals with a greater inclination to create humor in daily life also produced a higher number of creative ideas in the standard verbal creativity test. At first view, this seems to align with previous studies that suggested higher creative potential in individuals with greater endorsement of humor in daily life (Chang et al, 2015; also see Kellner and Benedek, 2017). However, the statistical results clearly show that the relationship between typical use of humor and general creative potential was driven by one particular comic style only: wit.…”

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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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“…However, the concept of creativity has still been vastly studied and can be linked to other phenomena in peoples' personality. For instance, a study conducted on humor and creativity found that those who endorsed all kinds of humor (including positive and negative humor) scored higher for creative attitudes than those who only endorsed one or the other type of humor (Chang, Chen, Hsu, Chan, & Chang, 2015). Previous research on creativity also has found that various facets of emotional intelligence (e.g., emotional facilitation) may predict markers of creativity (Parke, Seo, & Sherf, 2015).…”

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The Link between Emotional Intelligence and Creativity

Geher

Betancourt

Jewell

2017

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Empathic accuracy, or the ability to accurately know the emotional states of others, is a basic aspect of emotional intelligence. The current study explored the relationship between a standard measure of emotion-detection ability, the reading the mind in the eyes test, along with spontaneous measures of creativity (as well as the Big Five personality traits). To measure spontaneous creativity, participants were asked to come up with brief captions for two New Yorker cartoons. Three independent judges rated all captions along 10 continuous creativity dimensions. Participants also completed Gosling's brief measure of the Big Five. In a sample of 265 adults from around the world, the reading the mind in the eyes emerged as significantly and positively predictive of 9 of the 10 creativity indices. Regression analyses demonstrated that these relationships existed after controlling for gender and age of participant. Further, of the Big Five traits, conscientiousness emerged as negatively related to several indices of creativity. Implications for the relationship between social-perceptual processes (e.g., empathic accuracy) and social-productive processes (e.g., spontaneous creativity) are discussed.

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“…The significant third-order dimension of positive humor describes the ability to use humor to deal with personal mistakes, life’s unpredictability, and as a means for addressing difficult life events (Myers & Sweeney, 2008). The IS-WEL’s view of positive humor parallels a “self-enhancing and affiliative” (Chang, Chen, Hsu, Chan, & Chang, 2015, p. 307) humor style that has been associated with improved affect, relationship quality, and wellness (Dyck & Holtzman, 2013). Researchers have also linked humor with positive wellness outcomes across cultural, emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and biochemical domains (Chang et al, 2015; Cheung & Yue, 2013; Greenberger & Padesky, 1995; Sultanoff, 2013).…”

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Pediatric Stroke Caregiver Well-Being: A Holistic Wellness Perspective

Kissinger

Grover

Turner

2019

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

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Evidence-based models are critical for understanding caregiver well-being and treatment interventions from a holistic perspective. This study introduces the Indivisible Self: An Evidence-Based Model of Wellness (IS-WEL) as a means for examining the holistic wellness of pediatric stroke caregivers. In this exploratory study, 161 participants completed a demographic survey and the Five-Factor Wellness Inventory (FF-WEL). Results indicate significant wellness score differences between the current sample of pediatric stroke caregivers and the FF-WEL norming sample on the higher order Total Wellness factor, the second-order wellness factors of Creative Self and Social Self, and the third-order wellness factors of thinking, emotions, control, positive humor, and love. These results support the veracity of the IS-WEL as an additional empirically sound holistic approach for understanding and addressing the well-being of stroke caregivers. The authors discuss practical clinical and research implications for utilizing the IS-WEL with pediatric stroke caregivers.

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Flexible humor styles and the creative mind: Using a typological approach to investigate the relationship between humor styles and creativity.

Cited by 37 publications

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

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

The Link between Emotional Intelligence and Creativity

Pediatric Stroke Caregiver Well-Being: A Holistic Wellness Perspective

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