Openness to experience, plasticity, and creativity: Exploring lower-order, high-order, and interactive effects ☆

By Paul J Silvia, Emily C. Nusbaum, C. Berg, Christopher L. Martin, A. O'Connor. 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Verbal fluency and creativity: General and specific contributions of broad retrieval ability (Gr) factors to divergent thinking (2013, methodology): “As in our past research (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011), we used “snapshot scoring” (Silvia et al., 2009), which involves giving a single holistic score to each person's set of responses (e.g., all the uses for a rope) rather than a score for each individual response.”
Assessing creativity with self-report scales: A review and empirical evaluation. (2012, methodology): “…of personality, such as openness to experience— r = .37 in a correlation analysis ( Dollinger, 2007) and β = .62 in a structural equation model ( Silvia et al., 2009)—political conservatism ( r = −.27; Dollinger, 2007), Gough's (1979) creative personality scale ( r = .43; Dollinger et al.,…”
Subjective scoring of divergent thinking: Examining the reliability of unusual uses, instances, and consequences tasks. (2011, methodology): “Both scoring methods have fared well in research, but the top-two approach generally has larger effect sizes, probably because it omits the mundane responses that everyone generates ( Silvia et al., 2008 and Silvia et al., 2009b).”
Does insight problem solving predict real-world creativity? (2014, methodology): “The global CAQ score was log-transformed to normalize the highly skewed distribution (Carson et al., 2005; Silvia et al., 2012).”
Mystical Experiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin Lead to Increases in the Personality Domain of Openness (2011, background): “Openness is strongly associated with creativity (Silvia et al., 2009), and some of its facets (Ideas, Values) are correlated with general fluid intelligence and cognitive ability (DeYoung et al.”
Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought (2012, background): “For divergent thinking tasks, several trained raters simply evaluate and score individual ideas (Silvia, 2011; Silvia & Kimbrel, 2010; Silvia et al., 2008) or the set of ideas (Silvia et al., 2009).”
Counting the Muses: Development of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) (2012, background): “The only domain that did not correlate with openness to experience was Mechanical/Scientific, consistent with the Silvia et al. (2009) findings.”