Are intelligence and creativity really so different? ☆: Fluid intelligence, executive processes, and strategy use in divergent thinking

By Emily C. Nusbaum, Paul J Silvia. 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Pretend Play, Divergent Thinking, and Math Achievement in Girls: A Longitudinal Study (2015, result): “This idea was supported in a recent study showing that in adults, divergent thinking ability was specifically related to fluid intelligence (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011).”
The cognitive underpinnings of creative thought: A latent variable analysis exploring the roles of intelligence and working memory in three creative thinking processes (2013, methodology): “This ability to switch between response categories has been shown to predict better performance on divergent thinking tests (e.g., Benedek et al., 2012; Gilhooly et al., 2007; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011).”
Ready, Set, Create: What Instructing People to "Be Creative" Reveals About the Meaning and Mechanisms of Divergent Thinking (2014, methodology): “Concerning mechanisms, we contend that the be-creative effect reveals the controlled and strategic character of effective divergent thinking and thus informs the ongoing controversy about executive aspects of creativity (Kim, 2005; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011a).”
Visual tools for business model innovation: Recommendations from a cognitive perspective (2017, neutral): “Forth, visualization provides multiple retrieval paths for accessing knowledge (O’Donnell et al., 2002).”
Cantankerous creativity: Honesty–Humility, Agreeableness, and the HEXACO structure of creative achievement (2011, background): “Similarly, several studies of divergent thinking, a cognitive ability central to creative thought (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011), have found positive relationships with agreeableness (Silvia et al., 2009 and Silvia et al., 2008).”
Assessing creativity with self-report scales: A review and empirical evaluation. (2012, background): “Many recent articles and several handbook chapters review this controversial assessment domain ( Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011; Plucker & Makel, 2010; Plucker & Renzulli, 1999; Silvia et al., 2008).”
Scoring divergent thinking tests: A review and systematic framework. (2019, methodology): “The second approach counts switching only if the category has not been used before (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011).”
Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement. (2016, methodology): “Switching ability is also related to higher performance on creative divergent thinking tasks (Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011).”
Reasoned connections: A dual-process perspective on creative thought (2015, background): “Evidence that fluid intelligence and executive cognition are related to cognitive performance (e.g., Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011) have led others to adopt an alternative stance in which executive processing is seen as indispensable to creative thought.”