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In Search of the Creative Scientific Personality

Abstract: IN SEARCH OF THE CREATIVE SCIENTIFIC PERSONALITY by Maya V. Grosul This study investigates whether personality is a valid predictor of creativity in science above and beyond demographic characteristics, such as career age, gender, and scientific discipline. Creativity is an act of making something new, original, and useful. Creative achievement in science is the personal ability to generate original, useful, and adaptive scientific theories, research methods, or empirical findings. Personality characteristics … Show more

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“…In addition, the literature also put forwards that problem solving, producing hypotheses and creating designs in the engineering design process are related to scientific creativity (Lin et al, 2003). Grosul (2010) associates the transfer of creativity to life by combining it with scientific theories with scientific creativity. Similarly, Dağlıoğlu (2010) defines creativity as individuals' thinking of new things, integrating these into their lives and creating innovations.…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussion J Educ Sci Environ Healthmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, the literature also put forwards that problem solving, producing hypotheses and creating designs in the engineering design process are related to scientific creativity (Lin et al, 2003). Grosul (2010) associates the transfer of creativity to life by combining it with scientific theories with scientific creativity. Similarly, Dağlıoğlu (2010) defines creativity as individuals' thinking of new things, integrating these into their lives and creating innovations.…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussion J Educ Sci Environ Healthmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Soal selidik ini telah diguna pakai secara meluas dalam penyelidikan di serata dunia dan dilaporkan mempunyai kesahan dan tahap kebolehpercayaan yang tinggi iaitu nilai alfa antara .80 hingga .90 (Mansoor Momeni et al, 2011;Grosul, 2010;John dan Srivastava, 1999;John, Naumann & Soto, 2008). Menurut Novikova (2013), five-factor model atau dikenali sebagai Big Five merupakan model berkaitan personaliti yang paling berpengaruh dalam kajian bidang psikologi.…”
Section: Soal Selidik Big Five Personality Inventory (Bfi)unclassified
“…For this reason, scientific creativity can be studied in its own. The previous research shows that scientific creativity is related with some factors including problem solving, problem finding, formulating hypotheses, using analogies along with some personality factors such as motivation (Feist,1998;Grosul, 2010;Liang, 2002;Dunbar, 2000). Scientific creativity can be defined as, depending on previous experiences and knowledge, sensitivity to problems and their solutions, understanding nature of the science and fascinating with it, and development of new, extraordinary and useful scientific knowledge, experiments, theories and products.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%