The Standard Definition of Creativity

By Mark A. Runco, G. Jaeger. 2012

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Young Children’s Contributions to Sustainability: The Influence of Nature Play on Curiosity, Executive Function Skills, Creative Thinking, and Resilience (2019, background): “It is a multi-dimensional construct that includes the dimensions of fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality [37].”
Potential Originality and Effectiveness: The Dynamic Definition of Creativity (2016, methodology): “Note that the long definition of creative achievement is completely coherent with the definition of creativity by Stein (1953); the short version is essentially the standard definition of creativity by Runco and Jaeger (2012), both qualified as pertaining to creative achievement.”
Creative potential in educational settings: its nature, measure, and nurture (2015, background): “In the fields of Education and Psychology, creativity is often defined as the ability to produce original and valuable work that fits within particular task or domain constraints (Runco and Jaeger 2012; Stein 1953; Sternberg and Lubart 1995).”
Fixation and creativity in concept development: the attitudes and practices of expert designers (2015, background): “However, what these definitions often share is the joint requirement that the creative idea be both novel (to an individual, a group or the world2) and appropriate (Runco & Jaeger, 2012).”
Assessing Associative Distance Among Ideas Elicited by Tests of Divergent Thinking (2014, background): “This would seem to be promising because originality is of utmost importance for creativity (Runco & Jaeger, 2012) and originality can be defined in terms of ideation that is unconventional.”
The Creativity of Text-to-Image Generation (2022, background): “According to this two-part definition of creativity, an artifact is creative if it is both original (sometimes labeled as novel, unusual, or unique) and effective (or useful, fitting, or appropriate) [54].”
Mapping the Landscape of Creativity Support Tools in HCI (2019, background): “This led to the so-called second wave of creativity research [147], which dominated the late 1980s and early 1990s and foregrounded themes of groups and collaboration and the underlying cognitive processes as creativity unfolds in socio-cultural settings.”
A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological (2020, background): “For close to 70 years, this definition has been considered “standard” within the psychology of creativity (see Runco & Jaeger, 2012), even if it tells us little to nothing about the nature of the creative process.”
Effects of Problem Scope and Creativity Instructions on Idea Generation and Selection (2014, background): “Creativity, or the generation of ideas that are novel and useful (e.g., Barron, 1955; Runco & Jaeger, 2012; Stein, 1953), is highly valued in many domains, and techniques that aim to stimulate creativity are highly popular.”
How teachers perceive factors that influence creativity development: Applying a Social Cognitive Theory perspective (2018, background): “Members of the creativity field have proposed and adapted many definitions for creativity, yet almost universally, researchers agree that creativity includes both “originality and effectiveness” (Runco & Jaegaer, 2012, p. 92).”
Motives and resources for value co-creation in a multi-stakeholder ecosystem: A managerial perspective (2016, background): “Expo2015 Manager posits; “Having great ideas isn’t enough, we have to be able to make them real” [GEx], confirming the standard definition of creativity (Runco & Jaeger, 2012).”
Enhancing Social Entrepreneurial Intentions through Entrepreneurial Creativity: A Comparative Study Between Taiwan and Hong Kong (2018, background): “Entrepreneurial creativity can be assessed on two dimensions, namely originality and usefulness (Runco & Jaeger, 2012).”
The psychology of creativity: A critical reading (2014, background): “Whatever the reason, the tendency to skip definitional work has been noticed by journal editors and reviewers and today many of them require authors to make explicit their premises (Runco & Jaeger, 2012).”