Experimental social psychological study of group creativity

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In this study, I intended to investigate the conditions to enhance group creativity from social psychological viewpoint. First, I presented the process model of group decision making for creativity. Then, in this framing, I clarified that this study focused the "generation process" of creative ideas as the basic process of group creativity. After reviewing relational studies and findings, it was found that group processes themselves had inhibitory effects on generation of creative ideas through group discussion. And I argued that the effective and realistic way ti know the facilitative conditions for group creativity was making the inhibitory factors more clear, then developing the strategies to overcome.On the basis of arguments above, I conducted a series of experiments and got some important and new findings. They were as below. First, unbalanced stiffening of communication among members and increasing similarities of members had inhibitory influences on group creativity. Second, interaction of diverse opinions caused intellectual conflict stimulating a flash of a creative idea more than negative emotional conflict as hostility, then enhanced group creativity. Third, Metaknowledge such as, objects to report the fruit and the extent of other members' information and knowledge, had strong influences for both sides of enhancement and inhibition.In the conclusion, I argued some perspectives for croup creativity study. First, I demonstrated the importance of systematic linkage between group engineering approach and social psychological study of group processes. Second, I pointed out that the more significant task for group creativity study was to examine the factors making intellectual conflict dominant rather than hostility under interaction of diverse members.