Curiosity made the cat more creative: Specific curiosity as a driver of creativity
By Lydia Paine Hagtvedt, Karyn Dossinger, Spencer H. Harrison, Li Huang. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2019
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Abstract The present research examines the causal relationship between specific curiosity and creativity. To explicate this relationship, we introduce the concept of idea linking, a cognitive process that entails using aspects of early ideas as input for subsequent ideas in a sequential manner, such that one idea is a stepping stone to the next. Study 1 demonstrated the causal effect of specific curiosity on creativity. Study 2, a field study of artisans selling handmade goods online, found that experiencing specific curiosity predicts greater next-day creativity. Study 3 demonstrated idea linking as a mechanism for the effect of specific curiosity on creativity. Study 4 further established the impact of idea linking on creativity, finding that it boosted creativity beyond the well-established intervention of brainstorming. We discuss specific curiosity as a state that fuels creativity through idea linking and idea linking as a novel technique for creative idea generation.
Subfields: Communication, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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- The Creativity of Text-to-Image Generation (2022, background): “This process is iterative [1] and links ideas between subsequent prompts [21].”