Scientific creativity as constrained stochastic behavior: the integration of product, person, and process perspectives.

By Dean Keith Simonton. Psychological bulletin, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering

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Creativity in the opportunity identification process and the moderating effect of diversity of information (2012, result): “However, this perspective contradicts in part research from the creativity literature which has shown that focusing too much on one’s domain can become a barrier that reduces people’s performance in generating novel and original ideas (Simonton, 2003; Ward, 2004; Wiley, 1998).”
Structure and freedom in creativity: The interplay between externally imposed structure and personal cognitive style (2010, background): “Studies have suggested that creativity is related to the intuitive cognitive style (Scott & Bruce, 1995; Smith &DeCoster, 2000; Yates, 1999; see also Simonton, 2003, who suggested that creativity is related to a flat hierarchy of associations).”
The dual pathway to creativity model: Creative ideation as a function of flexibility and persistence (2010, background): “This has indeed been observed and has been called the equal-odds rule: the ratio of creative ideas to total output (i.e., the ‘‘hit-ratio’’) is uncorrelated with total output (Simonton, 1997, 2003b).”
Creativity and Discovery as Blind Variation: Campbell's (1960) BVSR Model after the Half-Century Mark (2011, methodology): “Apparently, creativity and discovery can only be successfully simulated by introducing some BV mechanism, a stipulation that most often leads to stochastic combinatorial procedures (Simonton, 2003b, 2004, 2010a).”
Beyond productivity loss in brainstorming groups: The evolution of a question (2010, methodology): “…at long-term creative achievements of eminent people (e.g., scientists or artists) and aims to explain who will make creative achievements, when these achievements are likely to be made during the lifespan, and what the career trajectories of creative people look like (e.g., Simonton, 1997, 2003).”
Why and how do creative thinking techniques work?: Trading off originality and appropriateness to make more creative advertising (2009, background): “Despite this, research on eminent creative individuals has provided some insights into the potential effects of divergent thinking techniques that encourage cross domain combination processes (Guilford 1968; Simonton 2003).”
Multicultural experience enhances creativity: the when and how. (2008, background): “For example, personality studies have demonstrated that creative people tend to be nonconforming, independent, intrinsically motivated, open to new experiences, and risk seeking (for reviews, see Simonton, 2000, 2003).”
Can Creativity Be Improved by an Attention-Broadening Training Program? An Exploratory Study Focusing on Team Sports (2007, background): “Dynamic situations such as ball games in particular enable creative performance to be analyzed in an ecologically valid way, as is recommended by many investigators (for a review, see Runco & Sakamoto, 1999; Simonton, 2003).”
FEATURED ARTICLE: The Creative Process in Picasso's Guernica Sketches: Monotonic Improvements versus Nonmonotonic Variants (2007, neutral): “Indeed, some of these latter acts of creation are probably as highly constrained as the discovery process in the hard sciences (Simonton, 2003, 2004b).”
A Critical Analysis of the Workplace Creativity Criterion Space (2012, background): “…and usefulness (i.e., quality) of a product or service or of an outcome as judged by relevant stakeholders (e.g., experts, customers, managers; e.g., Amabile, 1983b, 1988; Madjar & Oldham, 2006; Oldham & Cummings, 1996; Shalley, 1995; Shalley et al., 2004; Simonton, 2003; Tierney et al., 1999).”
Scientific Talent, Training, and Performance: Intellect, Personality, and Genetic Endowment (2008, background): “Divergent thinking enables the person to conceive alternative perspectives on a problem while reduced latent inhibition allows an individual to be sensitive to seemingly unrelated cues to the solution of a problem (Simonton, 2003).”
Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas over Time: An Analysis of the Dell IdeaStorm Community (2013, background): “A common theme in the new product literature is the importance of novel combinations and rearrangements of ideas, components, products, technologies, strategies, etc. (Simonton 2003, Fleming and Szigety 2006).”
Recommendations for Increasing Replicability in Psychology † (2013, background): “Some might say that the scientific process (and any other creative process) has Darwinian features because it consists of two steps (Campbell, 1960; Simonton, 2003): blind variation and selective retention.”