Paradoxical frames and creative sparks: Enhancing individual creativity through conflict and integration

By Ella Miron-Spektor, Francesca Gino, Linda Argote. 2011

410 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. M. Gocłowska
2. R. Crisp
3. Ella Miron-Spektor
4. Roy Y J Chua
5. Joshua Keller
6. Jin Yan
7. Jeffrey Loewenstein
8. Yan Shao

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Wendy K. Smith
2. Marc Lavine
3. Ella Miron-Spektor
4. Joshua Keller
5. A. Ingram
6. Marianne W. Lewis
7. B. Nijstad
8. Yan Shao

In Social Psychology

1. M. Gocłowska
2. R. Crisp
3. Roy Y J Chua
4. Joshua Keller
5. Jin Yan
6. Ella Miron-Spektor
7. Marc Lavine
8. Jeffrey Loewenstein

Citations in the corpus

• Culture, Conditions and Paradoxical Frames (2017, background): “First, we extend work on how paradoxical frames affect behavior (e.g., Miron-Spektor et al., 2011) by providing a theoretical account and empirical tests of when and why individuals adopt paradoxical frames in organizational settings.”
• The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativity (2013, background): “Miron-Spektor et al. (2011) argued that individuals who adopted paradoxical frames would be more creative than their counterparts who did not because the former were more effective at integrating contradictions.”
• Paradoxical Leadership and the Competing Values Framework (2014, background): “Paradoxical frames consistently prime respondents to respond with greater creativity (Miron-Spektor et al., 2011).”
• How Dual-Identity Processes Foster Creativity (2014, background): “…Experiment 3).4 Uplifts to creative and flexible cognitions have, furthermore, been found when exposing participants to conflicting mental frames (Miron-Spektor et al., 2011), bodily postures inconsistent with one’s mental state (Huang & Galinsky, 2011), or experiences (in a virtual reality…”
• Creativity under workload pressure and integrative complexity: The double-edged sword of paradoxical leadership (2019, background): “Research has also found that individuals who were primed with a paradoxical mindset to embrace seemingly contradictory elements demonstrated higher creativity as compared with those who were not (Miron-Spektor et al., 2011).”