Enhancing creativity: A comparison between effects of an indicative instruction “to be creative” and a more elaborate heuristic instruction on Chinese student creativity.

By W. Niu, Dan Liu. 2009

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought (2012, background): “Many studies have shown that measures of creativity are more valid when people are trying to generate creative responses (e.g., Harrington, 1975; Niu & Liu, 2009).”
Ready, Set, Create: What Instructing People to "Be Creative" Reveals About the Meaning and Mechanisms of Divergent Thinking (2014, background): “Concerning measurement, we revisit and elaborate on Harrington’s (1975) claim that “be creative” instructions are essential for the validity of divergent thinking tasks as measures of creative thought.”
Verbal fluency and creativity: General and specific contributions of broad retrieval ability (Gr) factors to divergent thinking (2013, background): “Past research shows that instructing people to “be creative” yields better responses (Harrington, 1975; Niu & Liu, 2009).”
Why do ideas get more creative across time? An executive interpretation of the serial order effect in divergent thinking tasks. (2012, background): “Past research demonstrates that “be creative” instructions increase the quality of responses ( Christensen et al., 1957; Harrington, 1975; Niu & Liu, 2009).”
Creativity of Chinese and American Cultures: A Synthetic Analysis. (2013, background): “For example, in one study, Niu and Liu (2009) found that creativity of Chinese students actually increases when they were explicitly told the goal of the creativity and the means to attain creativity.”