Judgments of originality and appropriateness as predictors of creativity
Judgments of originality and appropriateness as predictors of creativity
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DOI：
10.1016/0191-8869(93)90337-3
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发表时间：
1993-11
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
M. Runco;R. E. Charles
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作者：
M. Runco;R. E. Charles
大多数当代的创造性理论都承认原创性和某种适当性（例如适合或实用性）。本研究旨在探讨原创性与适切性对创造性判断的贡献。三个不同的想法集合，或“概念池”被组织在刺激卡上，每个卡中有系统地操纵的原始和适当的想法的数量。这些想法来自两个不同的发散性思维任务。法官（71名大学生）被要求根据三个不同的标准对游泳池进行排序：原创性，适当性和创造性。趋势分析被用来评估主观评级与客观水平的独创性和适当性的程度。回归分析也进行了主观评价的独创性和适当性（及其相互作用）的主观创造力评级的预测。在一般情况下，主观评级的独创性和适当性遵循的客观水平，但独创性和适当性之间的反比关系是显而易见的，与最低的独创性评级发生的概念池与最高数量的适当的想法，反之亦然。此外，只有主观的原创性评级与创造力评级。当所有的想法都是非原创的，创造力评分下降（虽然不显着）随着池中适当的想法数量的增加。然而，当原创性和适当性的客观水平增加时，创造力评分显着增加。这些结果表明，虽然它不是必要的原创想法是适当的被视为创造性的，原创的想法是不是适当的价值较低。然而，对于非原创的想法，适当性可能会抑制创造性的判断。
Most contemporary theories of creativity recognize originality and some kind of appropriateness (e.g. fit or practicality). The present investigation was conducted to assess the contributions of originality and appropriateness to judgments of creativity. Three different collections of ideas, or “ideational pools” were organized on stimulus cards, with the number of original and appropriate ideas systematically manipulated in each. The ideas were responses from two different Instances divergent thinking tasks. Judges (71 college students) were asked to sort the pools according to three different criteria: originality, appropriateness, and creativity. Trend analyses were used to assess the degree to which the subjective ratings were associated with the objective levels of originality and appropriateness. Regression analyses were also conducted with the subjective ratings of originality and appropriateness (and their interaction) as predictors of subjective creativity ratings. In general, the subjective ratings of originality and appropriateness followed the objective levels, but an inverse relation between originality and appropriateness was apparent, with the lowest originality ratings occuring for the ideational pools with the highest number of appropriate ideas and vice versa. Furthermore, only subjective originality ratings were associated with creativity ratings. When all ideas were unoriginal, creativity ratings decreased (though not significantly) with increasing numbers of appropriate ideas within the pools. However, when objective levels of both originality and appropriateness increased, creativity ratings increased significantly. These results suggest that although it is not necessary for an original idea to be appropriate to be viewed as creative, original ideas are not valued less by being appropriate. However, with unoriginal ideas, appropriateness may inhibit judgments of creativity.