Creativity: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Selection of Creative Ideas

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Title: Creativity: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Selection of Creative Ideas
Language: English
Authors: Zhu, Yuxi, Ritter, Simone M., Dijksterhuis, Ap
Source: Journal of Creative Behavior. Sep 2020 54(3):626-635.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 10
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Creativity, Selection, Problem Solving
DOI: 10.1002/jocb.397
ISSN: 0022-0175
Abstract: Creative idea selection--the selection of the most creative idea(s) from available ideas--is an important yet understudied topic. Creative idea selection can be performed by the idea generator (i.e., "intrapersonal" selection) or by another person (i.e., "interpersonal" selection). In the current research, we examined whether these two types of selection lead to different levels of performance. Participants generated six creative ideas to solve a societal problem. Thereafter, two selection tasks--intrapersonal selection and interpersonal selection--were performed. During intrapersonal selection, the idea generator selected the most creative idea from his/her own ideas; during interpersonal selection, another person made the selection from the same ideas. We found no effect of intrapersonal and interpersonal selection on creative idea selection performance: People selected ideas of identical creativity, irrespective of whether that idea was from themselves or from others. Moreover, we replicated the earlier finding that people perform suboptimally at creative idea selection, failing to select ideas that were more creative than an average idea, for both intrapersonal and interpersonal selection.
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Entry Date: 2020
Accession Number: EJ1268127
Database: ERIC
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ISSN:0022-0175
DOI:10.1002/jocb.397
Published in:Journal of Creative Behavior
Language:English