Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought

By Paul J Silvia, Roger E. Beaty. 2012

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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, background): “Recent work has shown large effects of Gf on the creativity of divergent thinking responses (Nusbaum& Silvia, 2011) and the creativity of metaphors (Beaty & Silvia, 2013; Silvia & Beaty, 2012).”
Investigating the structure of semantic networks in low and high creative persons (2014, methodology): “Since signiﬁcant relations have been found between creativity and novel metaphor processing (Gold et al., 2011; Silvia and Beaty, 2012), this analysis validates the decision tree classiﬁcation to LSC and HSC groups.”
Reasoned connections: A dual-process perspective on creative thought (2015, background): “…& Thomas, 2011), the interplay between associative and analytic thinking at the neural level (Gabora, 2010), the role of intelligence in creativity (Silvia & Beaty, 2012), theories that describe different paths to creativity (de Dreu, Nijstad, Baas, Wolsink, & Roskes, 2012), the emergence of…”
Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks. (2012, background): “First, people high in fluid intelligence should generate better, more creative responses overall, consistent with our claim that intelligence promotes creative thought ( Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011a; Silvia & Beaty, 2012).”
Ready, Set, Create: What Instructing People to "Be Creative" Reveals About the Meaning and Mechanisms of Divergent Thinking (2014, methodology): “After the divergent thinking tasks, participants completed several measures of fluid intelligence, most of which we have used extensively in our recent research (Beaty & Silvia, 2012, 2013; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011a; Silvia & Beaty, 2012; Silvia et al., 2013).”
Charisma: An Ill-Defined and Ill-Measured Gift (2016, background): “For instance, production of creative metaphors—an important marker of charisma (Antonakis et al 2011)—is predicted by general intelligence (Silvia & Beaty 2012).”
Does insight problem solving predict real-world creativity? (2014, background): “…controlled, strategic thought processes (Beaty & Silvia, 2012, 2013; Benedek, Beaty et al., 2013; Benedek, Franz, Heene, & Neubauer, 2012; Gilhooly et al., 2007; Jauk, Benedek, Dunst, & Neubauer, 2013; Jauk et al., 2014; Lee & Therriault, 2013; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011; Silvia & Beaty, 2012).”
Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement. (2016, methodology): “In a series of studies, Silvia et al. (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011; Silvia, 2008; Silvia & Beaty, 2012) examined the relation between Gf and creativity via structural equation modeling (Ullman & Bentler, 2003).”
Is creativity without intelligence possible? A Necessary Condition Analysis (2016, background): “…Sommer, Arendasy & Neubauer, 2014; Nusbaum& Silvia, 2011b), and a differentiatedmeasurement of creativity, not limited to divergent thinking tasks (Silvia & Beaty, 2012), recent studies have shown that correlations between intelligence and creativity may be much higher than creativity scholars…”
Automating creativity assessment with SemDis: An open platform for computing semantic distance (2020, methodology): “Note that the task duration was considerably longer than previous studies due to the temporal focus of Beaty and Silvia (2012).”
Intelligence and Creativity Are Pretty Similar After All (2015, background): “Some studies have asked people to generate creative metaphors to describe an experience—such as what it is like to sit in a boring class or eat disgusting food—and fluid intelligence strongly predicts the creativity of the metaphors (β=0.49; Silvia and Beaty 2012).”
Charisma as signal: An evolutionary perspective on charismatic leadership (2017, background): “Rhetorical skills are most likely interpreted by followers as signals of a leader's intelligence, as the ability to craft powerful speeches and invent creative metaphors are outwardly visible signals of a leaders' mental abilities (Silvia & Beaty, 2012).”