Capturing, clarifying, and consolidating the curiosity-creativity connection.

ABSTRACT: The cognitive-motivational concepts of curiosity and creativity are often viewed as intertwined. Yet, despite the intuitively strong linkage between these two concepts, the existing cognitive-behavioral evidence for a curiosity-creativity connection is not strong, and is nearly entirely based on self-report measures. Using a new lab-based Curiosity Q&A task we evaluate to what extent behaviorally manifested curiosity-as revealed in autonomous inquiry and exploration-is associated with creative performance. In a preregistered study (N = 179) we show that, as hypothesized, the novelty of the questions that participants generated during the Curiosity Q&A Task significantly positively correlated with the originality of their responses on a divergent-thinking task (the conceptually-base

SUBMITTER: Koutstaal W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9468176 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature