Indeterminacy and consciousness in the creative process: What quantum physics has to offer

McCarthy, Kimberly Ann

doi:10.1080/10400419309534479

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“…We investigated TM communication style in two different ways: first, we evaluated the TM's determinacy of the message (Hanks, ). We theorized that highly determined messages offer less space for interpretation, which leads to a lower risk level of misinterpretation during the decoding process, while a low determinacy in the message opens a larger space for own interpretation and thus creativity (McCarthy, ). This, however, requires that a TM allows and creates room for employees' own approaches regarding creative actions.…”

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If What You Want is not What You Get: A Communication‐Based Approach to Top Managers' Intended Firm Creativity and Employees' Failure to Deliver

Linder

Sperber

2017

European Management Review

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There often exists a gap between the level of creativity aimed for by the company's top managers and the level actually realized. In this article, we draw on Speech Act Theory and the Jakobsonian model of communication to investigate the reasons for this gap. We identify the top managerial as well as organizational conditions that shape and determine the way in which actors interpret information. By means of configuration analysis, we identify eight distinct configurations, which represent stable paths to reach the top managers' intended level of firm creativity. As the main contribution of this paper, we explain the reasons for the distance between the intended firm creativity by the top managers and the actually realized creative solutions by the workforce. This paper makes a further contribution to the interpretive approach in creativity management by highlighting the importance of speech acts.

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If What You Want is not What You Get: A Communication‐Based Approach to Top Managers' Intended Firm Creativity and Employees' Failure to Deliver

Linder

Sperber

2017

European Management Review

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“…Ambiguity tolerance and valuing ideas based on intuition are both logical correlates of CPS because solutions often evolve through successive ideations, and analyzing and integrating them takes time (McCarthy, 1993;Sternberg, 1988). Creative managers and inventors who satisfy environmental demands show broad curiosity and desire to explain things, humor, spontaneity, playfulness, and ambiguity tolerance (Femald, 1988;Schneiderman, 1984).…”

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Understanding, Measuring, and Enhancing Individual Creative Problem-Solving Efforts

Brophy¹

1998

Creativity Research Journal

150

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“…Shaw and Conway (1990) studied unconscious processes and the perception of tacit information by creative individuals and found that more creative people use "more nonconscious clues and non-consciously primed solutions" and that these tacit information perception processes were also found in gifted people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Shaw, 1992). Finally, researchers have proposed a quantum physics model involving the notions of creativity and conscious and non-conscious perception (McCarthy, 1993). Whence the importance-indeed the necessity-of studying links between, on the one hand, attention and memory (both of which often function unusually in modified states of consciousness) and, on the other, creativity and modified states of consciousness.…”

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Educating Through Attentional States of Consciousness, an Effective Way to Develop Creative Potential?

Kevin

Hagège

2022

Front. Educ.

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Researchers have recently turned their focus to a specific area: the links between altered states of consciousness and creativity. A spectrum of attentional states of consciousness exists, from hypnagogia and mind wandering to mindfulness and flow. These attentional states of consciousness are present during a variety of activities (e.g., sports, music, painting, writing, video games, theater, and meditation) as well as in situations characterized by boredom. They are also present in many professional fields and practices (e.g., education and teaching). Moreover, researchers and educators focus sometimes on only one state of consciousness (such as mind wandering) or only on attention, and do not question relationships with others (such as mindfulness or flow) or the links with intention, the different levels of consciousness involved and the changes in perception of time, self and space. Additionally, as we know that a state of consciousness rarely occurs alone or that it can have two forms (such as spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering), we propose a global approach allowing to grasp the stakes and perspectives of what we call attentional states of consciousness. Thus, to our knowledge, this is the first theoretical review highlighting the historical, empirical, theorical and conceptual relationships between creativity, attention, mind wandering, mindfulness and flow by offering concrete and empirical avenues and bases for reflection about educating for creativity and developing creative potential.

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Indeterminacy and consciousness in the creative process: What quantum physics has to offer

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

If What You Want is not What You Get: A Communication‐Based Approach to Top Managers' Intended Firm Creativity and Employees' Failure to Deliver

If What You Want is not What You Get: A Communication‐Based Approach to Top Managers' Intended Firm Creativity and Employees' Failure to Deliver

Understanding, Measuring, and Enhancing Individual Creative Problem-Solving Efforts

Educating Through Attentional States of Consciousness, an Effective Way to Develop Creative Potential?

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