Judgments of Creativity as a Function of Visual Stimulus Variability

Young, Michael E.; Racey, Deborah E.

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“…Factor analysis has found that complexity loads on the same factor as originality and creativity (O'Quin andBesemer 1989, Young andRacey 2009), and recent research has shown how increasing complexity or lowering visual fluency leads to higher ratings of creativity (Christensen et al under review) or product innovativeness (Cho and Schwarz 2006). As such, it is possible that individuals are using visual complexity as a heuristic for estimating product creativity and innovativeness -an important, and arguably the most important, criterion when estimating which ideas should be allowed to progress through gates in a product development process.…”

Section: Visual Complexity In the Information Providedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed idea screening in stage–gate development processes

Onarheim

Christensen

2012

Journal of Engineering Design

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This paper investigates the gate screening of ideas in engineering design, by examination of the validity of employee voting schemes and biases associated with such voting. After conducting an employee-driven innovation project at a major producer of disposable medical equipment, 99 ideas had to be screened for further development. Inspired by the concept of 'wisdom of the crowd', all ideas were individually rated by a broad selection of employees, and the ratings were used to investigate two biases in employee voting: visual complexity and endowment effect/ownership of ideas. The visual complexity bias was found to be a predictor for selection, but experienced employees were less affected by the bias. The ownership bias was potent in that every employee proved to be more likely to select his or her own ideas over other ideas, but this effect disappeared when aggregating across the crowd of employees. Furthermore, this study compared the employee selection with the preference of a small team of executives, showing that the employee voting significantly correlates with the preferences of the executives: overall, in the top 12 selected ideas and in the choice of idea categories. This match increases when including only the ratings of the most experienced employees.

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Section: Visual Complexity In the Information Providedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed idea screening in stage–gate development processes

Onarheim

Christensen

2012

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…Furthermore, in their factor-analytic study, O'Quin and Besemer (1989) found that complexity loaded on the same factor as other originality measures (i.e., original, surprising and germinal), but not on the same factors as the usefulness measures. In addition, Young and Racey (2009) found a linear, positive relation between stimulus variability and judged creativity across four experiments. However, Ball et al (2018) did not find that the complexity of abstract artwork influenced creativity ratings.…”

Section: Creativity and Aesthetic Appreciationmentioning

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Perceptual fluency effects in judgments of creativity and beauty: creative objects are perceived fluently yet they are visually complex

Christensen

Ball

Reber

2019

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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Perceptual fluency typically has a positive influence on aesthetic evaluations of beauty, but few studies have examined its influence on creativity evaluations. Creativity has two facets, originality and quality. If creativity judgments involve estimating product originality, such judgments may be associated with perceptual disfluency, while product quality may be associated with perceptual fluency. We examined the relationship between perceptual fluency and judgments of creativity and beauty across seven experiments. Creativity judgments were affected by most perceptual fluency sources. We observed a highly-fluent-is-beautiful-andcreative relation when testing repeated exposure and figure-ground contrast. Prototypicality displayed a high-fluency-is-beautiful relation, with creativity judgments unaffected. Visual complexity displayed a consistent disfluent-is-creative effect, with mixed results for beauty. For creativity (but not beauty) evaluations, increased saliency of visual complexity led to discounting fluent-is-creative effects, supporting the hypothesis that there are at least two fluency pathways to creativity judgments that take both originality and quality into account.

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“…Stokes (2001) has argued that high variability levels are a hallmark of divergent thinking and that variability within a domain can be learned during the early stages of skill acquisition (Stokes, 1999). In addition to variability affecting the production of creative products, greater variability is also associated with higher judgments of creativity (Young & Racey, 2009).…”

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An initial examination of computer programs as creative works.

Kershaw¹,

Clifford²,

Khatib³

et al. 2024

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Products from many domains (art, music, engineering design, literature, etc.) are considered to be creative works, but there is a misconception that computer programs are limited by set expressions and thus have no room for creativity. To determine whether computer programs are creative works, we collected programs from 23 advanced graduate students that were written to solve simple and complex bioinformatics problems. These programs were assessed for their variability of expression using a new measurement that we designed. They were also evaluated on several elements of their creativity using a version of Cropley and Kaufman’s (2012) Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale that was modified to refer to programming. We found a high degree of variation in the programs that were produced, with 11 unique solutions for the simple problem and 20 unique solutions for the complex problem. We also found higher ratings of propulsion-genesis and problematization for the complex problem than for the simple problem. This combination of variation in expression and differences in level of creativity based on program complexity suggests that computer programs, like many other products, count as creative works. Implications for the creativity literature, computer science education, and intellectual property law, particularly copyright, are discussed.

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Judgments of Creativity as a Function of Visual Stimulus Variability

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Distributed idea screening in stage–gate development processes

Distributed idea screening in stage–gate development processes

Perceptual fluency effects in judgments of creativity and beauty: creative objects are perceived fluently yet they are visually complex

An initial examination of computer programs as creative works.

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