Journal article
Creative mindset induction affects beliefs but not creative task performance
Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts
05 Dec 2024
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Abstract
This article presents two studies examining the relationship between induced creative mindsets and creative performance. Study 1, an online MTurk study, randomly assigned 85 participants to read one of two articles describing creativity as a growth/malleable or fixed/entity ability. Study 2 replicated Study 1 with an online Prolific study of 111 participants who were also randomly assigned to read one of two articles describing creativity as a growth/malleable or fixed/entity ability. After reading the articles, subjective beliefs about creativity including creative mindsets were measured. Participants completed divergent thinking and creative problem-solving tasks, which were rated by human coders as well as with an artificial intelligence automated scoring platform, using the consensual assessment technique. Results indicate that participants in the growth condition had higher growth mindset scores and lower fixed mindset scores than those in the fixed condition. However, both groups performed equally on the creativity tasks. Thus, while external information regarding creativity mindsets influenced self-rated creative mindsets in a manner that reflected how creativity was described, the actual creative performance was not influenced. Possible explanations are that more time, support, or domain-related creative tasks coupled with the type of external information used in this study might result in increased creative performance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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- Title
- Creative mindset induction affects beliefs but not creative task performance
- Creators
- Jen Katz-BuonincontroRichard W HassBrian MacCleery
- Publication Details
- Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Number of pages
- 14
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001369643000001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85212188197
- Other Identifier
- 991021970101204721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Humanities, Multidisciplinary
- Psychology, Experimental