1. Comparing creative profiles: Architects, social scientists and the general population
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Claude Houssemand, Todd Lubart, and Christiane Kirsch
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education.field_of_study ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Population ,050109 social psychology ,Sample (statistics) ,Fluid intelligence ,Creativity ,The arts ,050105 experimental psychology ,Openness to experience ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Creativity technique ,Psychology ,education ,Everyday life ,Social psychology ,General Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
The aim of this article is to investigate the hybrid approach of creativity, according to which some features are more domain-general whereas others are more domain-specific. The total sample consisted of 359 participants. The hybrid approach was confirmed. Whereas fluid intelligence had a domain-general importance, the role of ego-strength was very domain-specific. Ego-strength was positively involved in adaptive creativity among student architects but negatively in creativity with the social science students: whereas student architects tended to show a “scientific” creative profile, social science students showed an “artistic” creative profile. Finally, as anticipated, people from the general population demonstrated the expected profile for everyday creativity.
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- 2016
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