The Creative Character of Talk: Individual Differences in Narrative Production Ability

Morgan, Melanie; Greene, John O.; Gill, Elizabeth; McCullough, Jennifer D.

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“…On the assumption that there are, indeed, individual differences in creative facility (see Morgan et al, 2009), the primary thrust of this project was to explore factors that might begin to illuminate the nature, or even sources, of this difference. Three candidate individual-difference measures were examined here: speed of information processing, cognitive tempo, and need for cognitive structure.…”

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“…One might reasonably speculate that what we have termed ''creative facility'' is, in fact, simply a manifestation of the ''big five'' personality dimension, extraversion (see Paunonen & Ashton, 2001;Wiggins, 1996), but in neither of the studies reported by Morgan, Greene, Gill, and McCullough (2009) was message-production facility found to be related to extraversion. 2 In continued pursuit of this line of inquiry, then, we identified three other candidate variables that might potentially be related to creative facility: speed of information processing, cognitive tempo, and need for cognitive structure.…”

Section: Potential Sources Of Individual Differences In Creative Facimentioning

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A Phrase Well Turned: Creative Facility in Narrative Production

Greene¹,

Morgan²,

McCullough

et al. 2010

Communication Studies

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It is commonly recognized that messages are simultaneously patterned and creative, but studies of message production have tended to focus on repetitive features of messages, to the relative exclusion of examination of their novel characteristics. This study is concerned with creative facility-the ability readily to construct novel, appropriate messages. In order to investigate this phenomenon, subjects produced a series of simple SITUATION-ACTION-BECAUSE narratives and also completed measures of speed of information processing (Digit-Symbol Substitution Test, DSST), cognitive tempo (Matching Familiar Figures Test, MFFT), and need for cognitive structure (Personal Need for Structure scale, PNS). Results indicate each of these measures was related to the speed with which participants were able to formulate their narratives. Moreover, the impact of both cognitive tempo, assessed as number of errors on the MFFT, and need for cognitive structure was heightened under more cognitively demanding messageproduction conditions. Implications of these results and suggestions for future research are discussed.The study reported here has its genesis in two commonly recognized, yet relatively understudied, observations about human communication.

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Section: Potential Sources Of Individual Differences In Creative Facimentioning

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A Phrase Well Turned: Creative Facility in Narrative Production

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Morgan²,

McCullough

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Communication Studies

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“…Creative/aesthetic merit Morgan et al (2009) state that the quantification of the creative character of a narrative may not be so apparent. Therefore, it may be difficult to determine when someone has truly said something in a creative fashion.…”

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Narrative intelligence represented in translational success: issues of coherence, gaps, complexity and aesthetics

Heidari

Khoshsaligheh

Hashemi

2017

Sri Lanka J. Soc. Sci.

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Among the recent trends in researching translation and interpreting, the psychological aspects of translation process and the translator's cognitive state are swiftly developing and thriving trends among the scholars in the field. This study sought to implement this psychological approach in translation studies and investigated the possible effect of the cognitive concept of Narrative Intelligence (NI) on successful performance in translation. Over one hundred Iranian undergraduate English translation students were invited and 104 volunteers participated in the study. This qualitative study traces and contrasts the narrative features in translation of two groups of high and low NI English translation students studying their senior year in Iranian universities. The results showed that the translation performance of high NI group reflected a closer congruency with narrative features than that of the low NI group. The findings of the study relating to a) narrative coherence, b) the degree of text complexity/simplicity, c) gaps in translation, and d) creative/aesthetic merit are presented and discussed.

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“…And, as a third example, pertaining to the output side of the information-processing system, enhanced message-production skills may allow people to formulate message-relevant ideations that would elude their less competent counterparts (see Morgan et al 2009). Thus, relative to their less competent counterparts, more communicatively competent students are likely to acquire a more complete command of course content.…”

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9. Competence knowledge

Greene¹,

McNallie²

2015

Communication Competence

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The focus of this chapter is upon the acquired knowledge resources that a person must possess in order to communicate in an effective and appropriate manner. Following a general overview of various memory systems (e.g., declarative memory, procedural memory), a process-based approach to categorizing requisite knowledge types is introduced. More specifically, five broad process categories are developed: 1. message production and processing resources, 2. social coordination resources, 3. self-regulatory resources, 4. resources involved in the negotiation of "social reality", and 5. resources involved in the pursuit of task goals. Within each type, further sub-categories are identified and discussed. Following this review, the chapter addresses the fact that a person may possess perfectly adequate knowledge resources, and be motivated to act in a competent fashion, and yet still behave in suboptimal ways. This observation serves to foreground processes of memory retrieval and knowledge implementation which are treated in the context of second generation action assembly theory's characterizations of "activation" and "assembly". A final section raises the possibility of reconsidering the entire project of surveying "competence knowledge" by treating such knowledge resources not as the source of competent social behavior, but rather as the product of social action.

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The Creative Character of Talk: Individual Differences in Narrative Production Ability

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

A Phrase Well Turned: Creative Facility in Narrative Production

A Phrase Well Turned: Creative Facility in Narrative Production

Narrative intelligence represented in translational success: issues of coherence, gaps, complexity and aesthetics

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