Understanding when bad moods foster creativity and good ones don't: the role of context and clarity of feelings.

By Jennifer M. George, Jing Zhou. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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When Too Little or Too Much Hurts: Evidence for a Curvilinear Relationship Between Task Conflict and Innovation in Teams (2006, background): “49, respectively, and exceed Georgopoloulos’s (1986) minimum criterion of .”
Research on work engagement is well and alive (2011, background): “Negative affect, however, is known to be highly important for specific kinds of information processing (Schwarz & Clore, 1983 ) and may even foster creativity under certain conditions (George & Zhou, 2002 , 2007).”
How Lead Founder Personality Affects New Venture Performance (2013, background): “…up with truly new and useful technological ideas because their negative mood states cause them to be more critical and more willing to identify complex technological problems, which may prompt them to make changes and stimulate creativity (Frijda, 1988; George & Zhou, 2002; Martin & Stoner, 1996).”
The Creative Process (2005, neutral): “For example, emotional clarity and the capacity to perceive feelings are positively correlated with creative performance (George & Zhou, 2002).”
Revisiting Individual Creativity Assessment: Triangulation in Subjective and Objective Assessment Methods (2016, methodology): “Supervisor evaluation has often been used as a common assessment tool for field studies at organizational settings (George & Zhou, 2002; Oldham & Cummings, 1996; Scott & Bruce, 1994).”
When promoting positive feelings pays: Aggregate job satisfaction, work design features, and innovation in manufacturing organizations (2006, background): “Research exploring relationships between affect and creative outcomes presents mixed results (George & Zhou, 2002; Isen & Baron, 1991; Isen et al., 1987; Zhou & George, 2001).”
A Dialectic Perspective on Innovation: Conflicting Demands, Multiple Pathways, and Ambidexterity (2009, background): “George and Zhou (2002, 2007) have pointed out that both negative as well as positive moods may have a useful function: Negative mood promotes creativity when support for creativity and positive moods are present because negative mood signals a problematic state of affairs, leading individuals to…”
Feeling Creative, Being Creative: An Empirical Study of Diversity and Creativity in Teams (2005, methodology): “Indeed, there is previous research supporting each of these ideas (e.g. George & Zhou, 2002; Isen, 1999a).”
Optimism predicting employees' creativity: The mediating role of positive affect and the positivity ratio (2012, background): “Creativity has been found to be significantly related to positive affect in some studies (eg, Amabile et al, 2005 ; Rego, Machado, Leal, & Cunha, 2009 ), but to negative ones in others (eg, George & Zhou, 2002 ).”