Personality and boredom proneness in the prediction of creativity and curiosity

By J. Hunter, E. Abraham, Andrew G. Hunter, L. C. Goldberg, J. Eastwood. 2016

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The bored mind is a guiding mind: toward a regulatory theory of boredom (2018, background): “…has suggested that a state of boredom may promote creativity (Gasper & Middlewood, 2014; Harris, 2000; Mann & Cadman, 2014)—although such findings should be considered in conjunction with Hunter et al. (2016)’s study which reports that boredom as a personality trait is not predictive of creativity.”
Cultivating an understanding of curiosity as a seed for creativity (2020, background): “Similarly, boredom proneness has been found to predict both creativity and curiosity [30], while flow states have also been suggested to connect curiosity to creativity [31].”