Spark Minds Episode 3: 5 Myths About Creativity and 3 Tips To Increase Creative Output

We all have ideas about who is a creative or what increases creativity - by are any of them true? And if they aren't, what can we do to increase our creative output? In this month's episodes we are looking at the research behind some common creativity myths - do they bear out? And what can I do about it?

We all have ideas about who is a creative or what increases creativity - by are any of them true? And if they aren't, what can we do to increase our creative output? In this month's episodes we are looking at the research behind some common creativity myths - do they bear out?

SHOW NOTES:

Creativity, Personality Traits and Intrinsic Motivation

  • Veena Prabhu, Charlotte Sutton & William Sauser (2008) Creativity and Certain Personality Traits: Understanding the Mediating Effect of Intrinsic Motivation, Creativity Research Journal, 20:1, 53-66, DOI: 10.1080/10400410701841955

  • Wenfu Li, Xueting Li, Lijie Huang, Xiangzhen Kong, Wenjing Yang, Dongtao Wei, Jingguang Li, Hongsheng Cheng, Qinglin Zhang, Jiang Qiu, Jia Liu, Brain structure links trait creativity to openness to experience, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 10, Issue 2, February 2015, Pages 191–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu041

The Lone Wolf

  • Sawyer, R. K., & DeZutter, S. (2009). Distributed creativity: How collective creations emerge from collaboration. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 3(2), 81–92.

Team Cohesion and Creativity

  • Joo, Baek-Kyoo & Song, Ji Hoon & Lim, Doo & Yoon, Seung. (2012). Team creativity: The effects of perceived learning culture, developmental feedback and team cohesion. International Journal of Training and Development. 16. 77-91. 10.1111/j.1468-2419.2011.00395.x.

  • Rodríguez-Sánchez, A. M., Devloo, T., Rico, R., Salanova, M., & Anseel, F. (2017). What Makes Creative Teams Tick? Cohesion, Engagement, and Performance Across Creativity Tasks: A Three-Wave Study. Group & Organization Management, 42(4), 521–547. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601116636476

Brainstorming and Creativity

  • Collaros, P. A., & Anderson, L. R. (1969). Effect of perceived expertness upon creativity of members of brainstorming groups. Journal of Applied Psychology, 53(2, Pt.1), 159–163. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0027034

  • J. M. Hender, T. L. Rodgers, D. L. Dean and J. F. Nunamaker, "Improving group creativity: brainstorming versus non-brainstorming techniques in a GSS environment," Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI, USA, 2001, pp. 10 pp.-.