The dual pathway to creativity model: Creative ideation as a function of flexibility and persistence

By B. Nijstad, C. D. De Dreu, Eric Rietzschel, Matthijs Baas. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Does Negative Feedback Benefit (or Harm) Recipient Creativity? The Role of the Direction of Feedback Flow (2020, methodology): “The advice included useful tips on how to increase cognitive flexibility and cognitive persistence in creativity tasks, which were derived from findings reported in the creativity literature (Nijstad, De Dreu, Rietzschel, & Baas, 2010; Shalley, 1991; see Appendix A).”
Effects of Problem Scope and Creativity Instructions on Idea Generation and Selection (2014, result): “Interestingly, this was also recommended by Osborn (1953), and similar points have been raised by other researchers.”
How Dual-Identity Processes Foster Creativity (2014, background): “This type of skill is central to creativity (De Dreu et al., 2008; Nijstad et al., 2010; Nijstad, 2002).”
Feeling Mixed, Ambivalent, and in Flux: The Social Functions of Emotional Complexity for Leaders (2017, methodology): “…for individuals’ cognitive flexibility, or the ease with which individuals are able to broaden the scope of their attentional span to attend to divergent perspectives, but also to engage in a balanced consideration of those perspectives (Kleiman & Hassin, 2013; Nijstad et al., 2010).”
Can counter-stereotypes boost flexible thinking? (2013, background): “…ability to create new ideas and solutions (Ashby, Isen, & Turken, 1999; De Dreu et al., 2008; Heilman, Nadeau, & Beversdorf, 2003; Koestler, 1968; Nijstad et al., 2010; Sligte, de Dreu, & Nijstad, 2011).1 For instance, when people are not restricted by one semantic category while generating…”
Power, stability of power, and creativity (2011, background): “The number of ideas (fluency) is generally highly dependent on effort, but this is less true for average originality (although fluency and originality may be positively correlated; see e.g., De Dreu et al., 2008; Diehl & Stroebe, 1987; Nijstad et al., 2010; Osborn, 1953) and flexibility.”
A multilevel model of transformational leadership, affect, and creative process behavior in work teams (2015, background): “…from recent literature suggests that creativity can be achieved via two pathways: either (1) enhanced cognitive flexibility engendered by positive affect or (2) increased persistence promoted by negative affect (De Dreu et al., 2008; George & Zhou, 2007; Nijstad et al., 2010; To et al., 2012).”
Creativity under workload pressure and integrative complexity: The double-edged sword of paradoxical leadership (2019, background): “The paradox perspective suggests that to be creative, individuals are required to both break assumptions and rules and to adhere to boundaries and constraints (Guilford, 1957), to make use of both divergent and convergent thinking (Miron-Spektor, Gino, & Argote, 2011; Sowden, Pringle, & Gabora, 2015”
The shifting sands of creative thinking: Connections to dual-process theory (2014, background): “Further, with different pathways conceptualised as engaging different levels of cognitive control (e.g., Nijstad et al., 2010), a means of aiding shifting between them could take the form of improving a person’s ability to flexibly modulate cognitive control as there is some evidence that creative…”