Creativity East and West: Perspectives and Parallels
Creativity East and West: Perspectives and Parallels
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东西方创造力：观点与相似之处
DOI：
10.1111/j.1740-8784.2010.00193.x
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Kwok Leung
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作者：
Michael W. Morris;Kwok Leung
本次编辑论坛“东西方创造力”从不同研究文献的角度提出了五篇关于创造力文化差异问题的论文，并附有两篇综合评论。所代表的文献包括历史计量学、实验室和组织研究。通过国家比较和启动操纵来调查文化影响，重点关注人们如何创造性地表现以及如何评估创造力。本引言指出了这些研究观点的相似之处，表明了创造力方面的一些文化共性和一些系统差异。许多差异可以用这样的模型来解释：创造力意味着一种既新颖/原创又有用/适当的解决方案，但西方社会规范优先考虑新颖性，而东方规范优先考虑实用性——这种解释预测在激活社会规范的背景下会出现文化差异。这些评论从微观认知层面和宏观社会层面——创造力发生的过程来阐述这一论点。
This Editors' Forum – ‘Creativity East and West’ – presents five papers on the question of cultural differences in creativity from the perspective of different research literatures, followed by two integrative commentaries. The literatures represented include historiometric, laboratory, and organizational studies. Investigation of cultural influences through country comparisons and priming manipulations, focusing on how people perform creatively and how they assess creativity. This introduction notes parallels in the findings across these research perspectives, suggesting some cultural universals in creativity and some systematic differences. Many differences can be explained in terms of the model that creativity means a solution that is both novel/original and useful/appropriate, yet that Western social norms prioritize novelty whereas Eastern norms prioritize usefulness – an account which predicts cultural differences would arise in contexts that activate social norms. The commentaries elaborate this argument in terms of processes – at the micro cognitive level and at the macro societal level – through which creativity occurs.