Creativity in temporal social networks: how divergent thinking is impacted by one’s choice of peers

Baten, Raiyan Abdul; Bagley, Daryl; Tenesaca, Ashely; Clark, Famous; Bagrow, James P.; Ghoshal, Gourab; Hoque, Mohammed Ehsan

doi:10.1098/rsif.2020.0667

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“…This does not mean that this approach is strictly limited to these aspects. For example, it can also be imagined to serve the investigation of Collaborations, as EMA data can easily be used to study interpersonal processes of dyads, families, and even groups (for more detail see, Bolger et al, 2003; for examples, see, e.g., Baas et al, 2020; Baten et al, 2020; Glăveanu et al, 2019). The application of multilevel analysis allows to decompose variances of creative ideation performance into between-company, between-person within-company, and within-person components to study synchronous and asynchronous changes in creative potential within days, weeks, or months (Bolger et al, 2003).…”

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Ecological Momentary Assessment of Creative Ideation

Rominger

Schwerdtfeger

Benedek

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European Psychologist

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Abstract. Creative ideas in daily life show substantial variation in quality. Yet, most studies investigate the creative ideation process in highly controlled laboratory contexts, which challenges the ecological validity of creativity research findings. In this article, we advocate the use of ambulatory assessments of creative ideation to gain deeper insight into the variability of ideation processes (between- and within-subjects) in everyday life. We demonstrate this approach by the example of the ambulatory battery of creativity (ABC), which constitutes a reliable and valid approach to assess divergent thinking ability in the verbal and figural domain in everyday life context. Furthermore, it differentiates between-person and within-person variation of creative ideation performance. The first part of this paper will shortly describe the general approach using ABC as an example. In the second part, we use the 7 C’s heuristic to explore applications and implications of this novel method for creativity research. We focus on four C’s with special relevance for ambulatory assessment: Creator, Creating, Context, and Curricula. To this end, we review the findings of strongly controlled laboratory studies and discuss and illustrate applications of the ambulatory assessment. We conclude that the assessment of creative ideation performance in the field might help move the spotlight of creative ideation research from the laboratory to more naturalistic settings. This would increase the ecological validity of creative ideation research and facilitate fresh or unprecedented perspectives on past and future questions on a person’s creative potential and its moment-to-moment fluctuation.

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Ecological Momentary Assessment of Creative Ideation

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Benedek

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European Psychologist

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“…Thus, a reduced overlap between the egos' and alters' ideas can better inspire novel recombinations in the egos, as we confirm. Following highly creative alters is known to reduce such ego-alter overlaps 5 . We also find that a reduced overlap/redundancy between turn-2 ideas of ego-pairs corresponds to increased performances by the egos (Non-redundant idea count: Pearson's r = −0.55, P < 10 −6 ; Creativity Quotient: r = −0.20, P = 0.08).…”

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“…We also find that a reduced overlap/redundancy between turn-2 ideas of ego-pairs corresponds to increased performances by the egos (Non-redundant idea count: Pearson's r = −0.55, P < 10 −6 ; Creativity Quotient: r = −0.20, P = 0.08). The egos' similar choices of alters can exacerbate such idea redundancy 5 .…”

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Creativity in social networks is enhanced by 'Goldilocks' dispersal of ideators' visibility

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Recent works suggest that striking a balance between maximizing idea stimulation and minimizing idea redundancy can elevate creativity in self-organizing social networks. We explore whether dispersing the visibility of idea generators can help achieve such a trade-off. We employ popularity signals (follower counts) of participants as an external source of variation in network structures, which we control across four randomized study conditions. We observe that popularity signals influence inspiration-seeking ties, partly by biasing people's perception of their peers' creativity. Networks that partially disperse the ideators' visibility using this external signal show reduced idea-redundancy and elevated creativity. However, extreme dispersal leads to inferior creativity by narrowing the range of idea stimulation. Our work holds future-of-work implications for elevating creativity.

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“…Unfortunately, despite its ubiquity, the temporal self-organization characteristic of social networks has received rather little research attention when it comes to novel idea-generation performances of humans. Recent explorations suggest two opposing factors that influence idea generation performances in this setting ( 10 , 11 ). On the one hand, people selectively seek inspiration from (or "follow", as referred to henceforth) the high-performing peers in their networks.…”

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Novel idea generation in social networks is optimized by exposure to a “Goldilocks” level of idea-variability

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Recent works suggest that striking a balance between maximizing idea stimulation and minimizing idea redundancy can elevate novel idea generation performances in self-organizing social networks. We explore whether dispersing the visibility of high-performing idea generators can help achieve such a trade-off. We employ popularity signals (follower counts) of participants as an external source of variation in network structures, which we control across four conditions in a randomized setting. We observe that popularity signals influence inspiration-seeking ties, partly by biasing people’s perception of their peers’ novel idea-generation performances. Networks that partially disperse the top ideators’ visibility using this external signal show reduced idea redundancy and elevated idea-generation performances. However, extreme dispersal leads to an inferior performance by narrowing the range of idea stimulation. Our work holds future-of-work implications for elevating idea generation performances of people.

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Creativity in temporal social networks: how divergent thinking is impacted by one’s choice of peers

Cited by 10 publications

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Ecological Momentary Assessment of Creative Ideation

Ecological Momentary Assessment of Creative Ideation

Creativity in social networks is enhanced by 'Goldilocks' dispersal of ideators' visibility

Novel idea generation in social networks is optimized by exposure to a “Goldilocks” level of idea-variability

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