It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Effects of Instructions to Be Creative, Practical, or Analytical on Essay-Writing Performance and Their Interaction With Students' Thinking Styles

By L. O’Hara, Robert J. Sternberg. 2001

160 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Roy Y J Chua
2. Sheena Iyengar
3. Robert J. Sternberg
4. Eran Halperin
5. Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
6. A. Kadir Bahar
7. James C. Kaufman
8. R. Reiter‐Palmon

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Roy Y J Chua
2. Sheena Iyengar
3. Robert J. Sternberg
4. James C. Kaufman
5. Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
6. Elena L. Grigorenko
7. Yu-sien Lin
8. A. Kadir Bahar

Citations in the corpus

• The Assessment of Creativity: An Investment-Based Approach (2012, methodology): “Research within the investment framework has yielded support for this model (Lubart & Sternberg, 1995 ; O'Hara & Sternberg, 2000–2001 ).”
• Creativity as a Matter of Choice: Prior Experience and Task Instruction as Boundary Conditions for the Positive Effect of Choice on Creativity (2008, background): “More recent work by O’Hara and Sternberg (2001) suggests that, in the context of essay writing, the provision of creativity-specific instructions could lead to more creative performance.”