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Book Synopsis An Investigation of Creativity as Related to Two Factors of Cultural Differences by : Nancy Lillian Crossland
Download or read book An Investigation of Creativity as Related to Two Factors of Cultural Differences written by Nancy Lillian Crossland and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Culture and Creativity by : Tracy X. Xiong
Download or read book Culture and Creativity written by Tracy X. Xiong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on culture and creativity has shown cultural differences in creative performance among Western and Eastern individuals such that Westerners consistently outperform Easterners on certain creative tasks. Theorists have postulated that such differences are due to the existence of two separate aspects of creativity: novel and practical creativity. Cultures do not emphasise the two different aspects of creativity equally - Westerners place more importance on novelty while Easterners place more importance on practicality. Previous research examining culture and creativity has mainly focused on the novelty aspect of creativity, an aspect of creativity that is mostly emphasized in the West; thus, partially addressing the culture-based creative performance differences. However, we lack empirical research examining specific mechanisms that explain cultural differences in the conceptualization of creativity as well as creative outcomes. The current dissertation first investigates factors that explain the cultural variations in the conceptualization of creativity and creative performance, and then tests the role of multicultural experience as a factor that will help to reduce the noted performance difference. Study 1 examines the relationship between culture and preferences placed on novelty versus practicality in the conceptualization of creativity as well as the amount of evaluation focus given across Asian Canadian (Eastern) and Caucasian Canadian (Western) samples. Study 1 also tests the mediating role of three specific cultural values (individualism/collectivism, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance). Study 2 replicates results from Study 1 and examines the moderating role of multicultural experience on explicit attitudes toward novel and practical creativity and the ability to recognize creative ideas between Western and Eastern cultures. Study 3 extends results of Study 2 by examining the impact of multicultural experience on novel creativity in terms of idea generation in a native Chinese sample living in China. Study 4 examines the causal effect of multicultural experience on creative evaluation focus and the ability to recognize creative ideas between both cultures by experimentally manipulating multicultural experience. Consistent with previous research, results show that Asian Canadian individuals held a stronger preference towards idea practicality than Caucasian Canadian individuals and Caucasian Canadian individuals held a stronger preference towards idea novelty than Asian Canadians. Uncertainty avoidance explained the underlying relationship between culture and creativity such that high levels of uncertainty avoidance led to less preference towards idea novelty. Similar to findings from Study 1, Study 2 found that uncertainty avoidance mediated the relationship between culture and explicit attitudes towards novelty creativity. It was also shown that multicultural experience boosted the explicit attitudes toward novelty for Asian Canadian participants. The beneficial effects of multicultural experience were generalized in Study 3 where participants with more exposure to different cultures generated more novel ideas. Finally, it was shown in Study 4 that experimentally manipulated multicultural experience affected both Asian Canadian and Caucasian Canadian participants' evaluation focus such that participants focused more on the aspect of creativity that is less emphasized in their native culture. In an exploratory analysis, it was found that multicultural experience enhanced novel creativity especially for those with high uncertainty avoidance. Overall, findings provide tangible recommendations for creativity and innovation in a globalized world.
Book Synopsis Cognitive Processes in Individual and Collective Creativity: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by : Chang Liu
Download or read book Cognitive Processes in Individual and Collective Creativity: A Cross-Cultural Perspective written by Chang Liu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity, the highest level of human wisdom, has become an increasingly important concept in different fields of psychological enquiry, particularly because it is portrayed as contributing to many aspects of society, including personal development, economic prosperity and technological advancement. However, although considerable research attention from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds has focused on trying to understand creativity, the specific nature of creativity, its theoretical underpinnings and cognitive mechanisms, remain unclear, not least when it comes to the understanding of creativity at the individual level and creativity at the collective level. On the one hand, there are crucial distinctions between individual and collective creativity. On the other hand, the process of being creative involves not only independent or individual efforts but also interdependent or collective efforts. Understanding these differences and interrelationships is crucially important in studies of creativity. In this Research Topic, we bring together research from a wide variety of cognitive and psychological approaches and perspectives in order to provide a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of creativity at both the individual and collective levels. Furthermore, cognitive mechanisms in the creativity process are unavoidably affected by sociocultural factors and these mechanisms look different across cultures, particularly between Eastern cultures and Western cultures, two worlds that often imply dramatically dissimilar values and perspectives. Despite the fact that many studies have compared and contrasted these two cultures in various respects, little research has focused on the specific topic of cultural variation in creative cognition. In addition, very few studies have examined the differences in the cognitive mechanisms underpinning the cultural variations that can be observed at a surface level. This Research Topic aims to fill this gap in the literature and examine the cognitive processes and mechanisms in the creativity process at both individual and collective levels across different cultures by using theoretical and empirical evidence.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research by : Vlad Petre Glăveanu
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research written by Vlad Petre Glăveanu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-21 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking Handbook brings together leading international experts in creativity and culture research to provide an overview of current debates. It showcases the wealth of topics, approaches and definitions specific for this new, interdisciplinary field within creativity research. The theoretical and methodological innovations emerging from the joint study of creativity and culture highlight the role of creativity within today's innovation-based, multicultural societies. Drawing on theoretical and empirical reflections, including case studies from different continents and different creative domains, this Handbook provides a truly global outlook on current creativity research within an emergent, interdisciplinary field. This variety is highlighted by the Handbook's structure as it is divided into five sections: Creativity and Culture in the Psychology of Creativity; Creativity in Socio-Cultural Psychology; Creativity in Cultural Context; Creativity and Culture in Applied Domains; Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Creativity and Culture. These sections provide a clear overview of the debates and questions of this research area as contributors share their interest in creativity not only as an individual but also a social and cultural phenomenon, and in culture as both the foundation and outcome of creative action. The Handbook will be an essential resource for researchers, particularly those based in social science and humanities disciplines.
Book Synopsis Creativity, Culture, and Development by : Ai-Girl Tan
Download or read book Creativity, Culture, and Development written by Ai-Girl Tan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of writings on the relations among creativity, culture and development. The editors invited “like-minded” researchers of creativity from around the world to share their respective notions of creativity. Given that human creativity is a potential that can and should be nurtured in the course of lifespan development and across all cultural backgrounds, the volume emphasizes the importance of promoting creativity in all cultures and through societal-educational opportunities, and offers a venue for the authors to make conceptual, empirical and practical inquiries into the relations among creativity, development and culture. The authors represent a varied “mix” of contemporary and emerging creativity researchers who use different methodologies to investigate the importance of culture in creativity development and the reciprocal role of developing creativity and cultural enrichment. The volume represents an attempt on the part of the editors and the authors to broaden our current understanding of creativity in the contexts of human and cultural development, and in so doing to enhance our understanding of creativity, culture and development in the contexts of flourishing human and societal activities. As the first volume in a book series on “Creativity in the Twenty-First Century”, the book invites readers and researchers to engage in future interdisciplinary and intercultural discourses and dialogues on the importance of creativity for human and cultural development.
Book Synopsis Creativity, Innovation, and Change Across Cultures by : David D. Preiss
Download or read book Creativity, Innovation, and Change Across Cultures written by David D. Preiss and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers interdisciplinary, multicultural, and international perspectives on the interrelation between culture, innovation, change and creative forces. Its wide-ranging contributions present theoretical and empirical approaches and with reference to different domains across disciplines including psychology, education, social sciences, humanities, and engineering. The authors demonstrate how urgent social, environmental, technological, and economic challenges can benefit from individual, and community creativity to effect change. In this volume, “culture” refers to sociocultural differences, educational culture, media culture, organizational culture, technological culture, ethnic differences within a culture, and digital culture. Its contributors offer fresh insights on how creativity, innovation, and change can propel us forward and offer hope for the future across these many different forms of culture. They offer both granular studies of creativity and innovation at work in particular contexts and macro-level discussion on how they affect organizational culture, the culture of a discipline and society at large. This cross-cultural analysis of creativity, innovation and approaches to change will particularly appeal to practitioners and researchers in the fields of psychology, organizational behavior and education.
Book Synopsis Master's Theses in Education by : T. A. Lamke
Download or read book Master's Theses in Education written by T. A. Lamke and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cultural Values and Creativity by : Junior Ali Badibanga
Download or read book Cultural Values and Creativity written by Junior Ali Badibanga and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the influence of culture on creativity is in its infancy. Organizations world-wide may benefit from such research by implementing work environments that maximize creativity. In this article, the cross-cultural differences in creativity and the cultural values of cognitive uncertainty and desire for change were investigated. Three hundred eighty three undergraduate students from the University of North Florida and the University of Pretoria in South Africa participated in a study where creativity was measured using the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA; Goff & Torrance, 2002) and the Creative Achievement Questionnaire (CAQ), particularly the portion of the CAQ identifying domain specific achievements (CAQ; Carson, Peterson, & Higgins, 2005). In addition to measuring creativity levels in both cultures, two cultural values, Cognitive Uncertainty and Desire for Change, were measured. Results indicate a significant positive correlation between Desire for Change and the CAQ in the United States and a significant negative correlation between Cognitive Uncertainty and the CAQ in South Africa. Independent samples t-tests were also conducted, resulting in higher scores from the United States sample on the ATTA and higher scores from the South African sample on Cognitive Uncertainty. It is argued that the results could have implications for developing work environments that foster creativity.
Book Synopsis Creativity and innovation in STEAM education by : Weihua Niu
Download or read book Creativity and innovation in STEAM education written by Weihua Niu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Culture and Creativity by : Angela K.-Y. Leung
Download or read book Handbook of Culture and Creativity written by Angela K.-Y. Leung and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Culture and Creativity is a collaborative effort to provide readers with an in-depth and systematic inquiry into the cultural processes of creativity and innovation, as well as the creative processes of cultural transformation. As the editors acknowledge, creativity emerges from dialogical interaction with cultural imperatives, norms, and artifacts, but culture also evolves and transforms through a generative process fueled by creativity. In order to illuminate nuanced insights on the complex culture-creativity nexus, this volume is organized into four broad sections: reciprocal relationships, socio-cultural contexts, diversifying experiences and creativity, and policy and applied perspectives. Edited by Angela K.-Y. Leung, Letty Kwan, and Shyhnan Liou, this cogent volume features cutting-edge evidence and research, and lays the groundwork for pursuing a new science for integrating the study of culture and creativity.
Book Synopsis Checklist of Theses and Dissertations Accepted for Higher Degrees at the University of Arizona Through ... by : University of Arizona
Download or read book Checklist of Theses and Dissertations Accepted for Higher Degrees at the University of Arizona Through ... written by University of Arizona and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Multilingualism and Creativity by : Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
Download or read book Multilingualism and Creativity written by Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph, Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin presents the results of his empirical investigation into the impact of multilingual practice on an individual's creative potential. Until now, the relationship between these two activities has received little attention in the academic community. The book makes an attempt to resuscitate this theme and provides a solid theoretical framework supported by contemporary empirical research conducted in a variety of geographic, linguistic, and sociocultural locations. This study demonstrates that several factors - such as the multilinguals' age of language acquisition, proficiency in these languages and experience with cultural settings in which these languages were acquired - have a positive impact on selective attention and language mediated concept activation mechanisms. Together, these facilitate generative and innovative capacities of creative thinking. This book will be of great interest not only to scholars in the fields of multilingualism and creativity, but also to educators and all those interested in enhancing foreign language learning and fostering creativity.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Group Creativity and Innovation by : Paul B. Paulus
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Group Creativity and Innovation written by Paul B. Paulus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although creativity is often considered an individual ability or activity, innovation in teams and organizations involves collaboration of people with diverse perspectives, knowledge, and skills. The effective development of collaborative innovations and solutions to problems is critical to the success of teams and organizations, but research has also demonstrated many factors which tend to limit the effectiveness of collaborative innovation of groups and teams. This volume highlights recent theoretical, empirical, and practical developments that provide a solid basis for the practice of collaborative innovation and future research. It draws from a broad range of research perspectives including cognition, social influence, groups, teams, creativity, communication, networks, information systems, organizational psychology, engineering, computer science, and the arts. This volume is an important source of information for students, scholars, practitioners, and others interested in understanding the complexity of the group creative process and tapping the creative potential of groups and teams.
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship by : Christina Ellen Shalley
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship written by Christina Ellen Shalley and published by Oxford Library of Psychology. This book was released on 2015 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity can be viewed as the first stage of the overall innovation process, an important dimension of the entrepreneurship and new venture creation processes, and as such, it is considered to be a cornerstone of organizational competitiveness in this global, knowledge-based economy. Research on creativity has increasingly become multilevel, with most work conducted at the individual or team level of analysis. At the same time, there is a large body of research being conducted at the organizational level of analysis on innovation, and there has been a significant amount of entrepreneurship research at the individual level, with an increasing focus on organizational entrepreneurship. However, these three research streams have developed independently, and there has been very little knowledge transfer between the three areas. Because entrepreneurship is often said to be a process that is required to convert innovation into business ventures that will deliver benefits to stakeholders, it is typically driven by an individual or small group of individuals. Creativity research, innovation research, and entrepreneurship research have the potential to inform each other, enriching our knowledge of each area, particularly with regard to the cognitive processes and behaviors that are most effective. This Handbook includes contributions from the leading scholars in these three research areas, who integrate contemporary research findings on organizational creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship and provide fruitful new research directions."
Book Synopsis A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism by : Nancy Duxbury
Download or read book A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism written by Nancy Duxbury and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and thought-provoking, this book investigates how creative experiences, interactions, and place-specific dynamics and contexts combine to give shape to the expanding field of creative tourism across the globe. Exploring the evolution of research in this field, the authors investigate pathways for future research that advance conceptual questions and pragmatic issues.
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