Predicting creativity from early to late adulthood: Intellect, potential, and personality

Feist, Gregory J.; Barron, Frank

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“…Three additional reasons support this choice. First, the use of awards and nominations as indicators of creativity reflects a fairly established practice in the tradition of creativity research that dates back to Francis Galton (1869) and represents one of several methods used to provide an operational definition of creativity (e.g., Caird 1994;Feist and Barron 2003;Simonton 2004b, c). Second, both industry peers and film critics have long been organized in various independent professional bodies that provide systematic assessment of the individual contributions in the various domains of cinematic creativity (Simonton 2004b).…”

Section: Dependent Variablementioning

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A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry

Cattani

Ferriani

2008

Organization Science

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This is the published version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link Full terms and conditions of use: http://pubsonline.informs.org/page/terms-and-conditionsThis article may be used only for the purposes of research, teaching, and/or private study. Commercial use or systematic downloading (by robots or other automatic processes) is prohibited without explicit Publisher approval, unless otherwise noted. For more information, contact permissions@informs.org.The Publisher does not warrant or guarantee the article's accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Descriptions of, or references to, products or publications, or inclusion of an advertisement in this article, neither constitutes nor implies a guarantee, endorsement, or support of claims made of that product, publication, or service. Copyright © 2008, INFORMS Please scroll down for article-it is on subsequent pagesINFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the fields of operations research, management science, and analytics. For more information on INFORMS, its publications, membership, or meetings visit http://www.informs.org Organization Science Vol. 19, No. 6, November-December 2008, pp. T he paper advances a relational perspective to studying creativity at the individual level. Building on social network theory and techniques, we examine the role of social networks in shaping individuals' ability to generate a creative outcome. More specifically, we argue that individuals who occupy an intermediate position between the core and the periphery of their social system are in a favorable position to achieve creative results. In addition, the benefits accrued through an individual's intermediate core/periphery position can also be observed at the team level, when the same individual works in a team whose members come from both ends of the core/periphery continuum. We situate the analysis and test our hypotheses within the context of the Hollywood motion picture industry, which we trace over the period 1992-2003. The theoretical implications of the results are discussed.

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Section: Dependent Variablementioning

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A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry

Cattani

Ferriani

2008

Organization Science

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“…Generally, cognitive ability as an individual difference factor has been shown to be associated with creative performance but only modestly (e.g., r = 0. 2;Feist & Barron, 2003;Hennessey & Amabile, 2010). Research on cognitive styles showed that whereas an intuitive thinking style was positively related to creative performance, a systematic thinking style showed no relationship (Clegg, Unsworth, Epitropaki, & Parker, 2002).…”

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The Two-Faced Leader: Effects of Leader Emotional Inconsistency on Follower Creative Performance

Stollberger¹,

Guillaume

2016

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Doctor of Philosophy 2016 THESIS SUMMARYBased on a review of the literatures pertaining to leadership, affect, and creative performance, the studies conducted as part of this thesis aim at testing a research model that examines how and under which conditions leader emotional inconsistency between happiness and anger is related to follower creative performance. For an experimental test of the proposed research model I collected data from 94 followers for whom a leader-follower interaction was simulated using a video manipulation. Moderated mediation analyses revealed that leader emotional inconsistency was positively associated with follower creative performance via increases in creative process engagement, but only for followers with high levels of epistemic motivation, which sheds light on the importance of follower's information processing capabilities when faced with complex emotional leadership. I replicated the results of the first study in a second experiment where a leader-follower interaction was simulated using a scenario manipulation. Using data collected from 81 followers, moderated mediation analyses showed that leader displays of emotional inconsistency were positively related to creative performance via increases in creative process engagement for followers with high levels of epistemic motivation. Both experimental studies provide evidence towards the directionality of the examined interrelationships across different types of experimental manipulations employed. Finally, I replicated the research model of this thesis in a field setting using a measurement scale of leader emotional inconsistency specifically developed for this study. Week-level data was collected from 60 leader-follower dyads working in two organisations and providing a total of 253 matched weekly leader and follower responses. Multilevel moderated mediation analyses showed that follower weekly creative performance follows from weekly leader displays of emotional inconsistency via increases in weekly creative process engagement for followers with high epistemic motivation. Taken together, the studies conducted provide both internal and external validity to the theoretically derived research model of this thesis.Keywords: Leader emotional inconsistency; happiness; anger; creative process engagement; creative performance; epistemic motivation; experiment; diary study; multilevel research; EASI theory 3 DEDICATION Kedves Tatámnak, nyugodj békében.To my dear grandpa, may you rest in peace.Szász Mihály (1925 -2016) 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many colleagues and friends supported me on my PhD journey and I would like to express my gratitude to them. First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor Dr Yves Guillaume for steering me through the three intense years it took me to complete this thesis. As I never really warmed up to the label "student", I thank Yves for his patience and perseverance in dealing with a rebellious and at times stubborn PhD student such as myself. I also want to thank Prof Richard Crisp for his assistance in the writ...

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“…At the same time, research on creativity show that only creative abilities may be insufficient if an individual does not possess appropriate personality traits [5]. Due to the fact that the findings concerning the links between creativity and personality traits, features of cognitive functioning, or environmental variables are inconsistent, there is a need for further exploration in this area.…”

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The need for cognitive closure and the level of creative behavior in relation to the comprehension and design of complex spatial structures

Wójtowicz

Wojtowicz

2017

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The need for cognitive closure and the level of creative behavior in relation to the comprehension and design of complex spatial structures Potrzeba poznawczego domknięcia i poziom zachowań twórczych a rozumienie i projektowanie złożonych struktur przestrzennych AbstractAlthough the relationship between the cognitive style and creativity has been the subject of many studies, the results have been inconsistent. Therefore, it seems reasonable to further scrutinize the issue, particularly in the context of professionals, whose jobs involve creativity. The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between the need for cognitive closure and the level of creative and reproductive attitudes with the comprehension and design of complex spatial structures. The study involved 111 first-year students of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology. The results revealed that individuals with a low level of skills in design using geometric constructs had higher levels of reconstructive attitudes in the area of conformity and a lower level of the need for cognitive closure in the area of decisiveness than the ones with a high level of design skills, using geometric constructions. It was also found that as the level of the need for cognitive closure increased, the level of creative behaviour decreased; however, in participants with a high level of design skills using geometric constructions, it showed an upward trend. The results also indicated that the respondents held an average level of creative behaviour and a high level of conformity associated with a reproductive attitude, which is a worrying result as far as the future architects are concerned.Keywords: creativity, need for cognitive closure, geometry, architecture StreszczenieZwiązki pomiędzy stylem poznawczym a twórczością są tematem wielu badań, jednak nie przyniosły one do tej pory spójnych rezultatów. Zasadne więc wydaje się dalsze analizowanie tego zagadnienia, zwłaszcza w odniesieniu do osób, których zawód w dużej mierze związany jest z szeroko rozumianą twórczością. Celem badania było określenie związków potrzeby poznawczego domknięcia i poziomu postaw twórczych oraz odtwórczych z rozumieniem i projektowaniem złożonych struktur przestrzennych. W badaniu wzięło udział 111 studentów pierwszego roku kierunku architektura Wydziału Architektury Politechniki Krakowskiej. Przeprowadzone analizy wykazały, że osoby o niskich umiejętnościach projektowania wykorzystującego konstrukcje geometryczne miały wyższy poziom postawy odtwórczej w obszarze konformizmu oraz niższy poziom potrzeby poznawczego domknięcia w obszarze zdecydowania niż osoby o wysokich umiejętnościach projektowania wykorzystującego konstrukcje geometryczne. Okazało się również, że u tych osób wraz ze wzrostem poziomu potrzeby poznawczego domknięcia zmniejszał się poziom zachowań twórczych, natomiast u osób o wysokim poziomie umiejętności projektowania wykorzystującego konstrukcje geometryczne miał tendencję wzrostową. Wyniki wskazują również, że wśród badanych...

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Predicting creativity from early to late adulthood: Intellect, potential, and personality

Cited by 271 publications

References 50 publications

A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry

A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry

The Two-Faced Leader: Effects of Leader Emotional Inconsistency on Follower Creative Performance

The need for cognitive closure and the level of creative behavior in relation to the comprehension and design of complex spatial structures

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