Creativity and cognitive skills among millenials: Thinking too much and creating too little
Organizations crucially need the creative talent of millennials but are reluctant to hire them because of their supposed lack of diligence. Recent studies have shown that hiring diligent millennials requires selecting those who score high on the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and thus rely on effor...
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| author | Brice Corgnet Antonio M. Espín Antonio M. Espín Roberto Hernan Gonzalez Roberto Hernan Gonzalez |
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| description | Organizations crucially need the creative talent of millennials but are reluctant to hire them because of their supposed lack of diligence. Recent studies have shown that hiring diligent millennials requires selecting those who score high on the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and thus rely on effortful thinking rather than intuition. A central question is to assess whether the push for recruiting diligent millennials using criteria such as cognitive reflection can ultimately hamper the recruitment of creative workers. To answer this question, we study the relationship between millennials’ creativity and their performance on fluid intelligence (Raven) and cognitive reflection (CRT) tests. The good news for recruiters is that we report, in line with previous research, evidence of a positive relationship of fluid intelligence, and to a lesser extent cognitive reflection, with convergent creative thinking. In addition, we observe a positive effect of fluid intelligence on originality and elaboration measures of divergent creative thinking. The bad news for recruiters is the inverted U-shape relationship between cognitive reflection and fluency and flexibility measures of divergent creative thinking. This suggests that thinking too much may hinder important dimensions of creative thinking. Diligent and creative workers may thus be a rare find. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-99c45e2781934e2a9dfa25c339765a5a2022-12-22T00:49:17ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782016-10-01710.3389/fpsyg.2016.01626220825Creativity and cognitive skills among millenials: Thinking too much and creating too littleBrice Corgnet0Antonio M. Espín1Antonio M. Espín2Roberto Hernan Gonzalez3Roberto Hernan Gonzalez4Chapman UniversityMiddlesex UniversityUniversidad de GranadaUniversity of NottinghamUniversidad de GranadaOrganizations crucially need the creative talent of millennials but are reluctant to hire them because of their supposed lack of diligence. Recent studies have shown that hiring diligent millennials requires selecting those who score high on the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and thus rely on effortful thinking rather than intuition. A central question is to assess whether the push for recruiting diligent millennials using criteria such as cognitive reflection can ultimately hamper the recruitment of creative workers. To answer this question, we study the relationship between millennials’ creativity and their performance on fluid intelligence (Raven) and cognitive reflection (CRT) tests. The good news for recruiters is that we report, in line with previous research, evidence of a positive relationship of fluid intelligence, and to a lesser extent cognitive reflection, with convergent creative thinking. In addition, we observe a positive effect of fluid intelligence on originality and elaboration measures of divergent creative thinking. The bad news for recruiters is the inverted U-shape relationship between cognitive reflection and fluency and flexibility measures of divergent creative thinking. This suggests that thinking too much may hinder important dimensions of creative thinking. Diligent and creative workers may thus be a rare find.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01626/fullCognitionIntelligenceIntuitioncreativityCognitive reflection |
| spellingShingle | Brice Corgnet Antonio M. Espín Antonio M. Espín Roberto Hernan Gonzalez Roberto Hernan Gonzalez Creativity and cognitive skills among millenials: Thinking too much and creating too little Frontiers in Psychology Cognition Intelligence Intuition creativity Cognitive reflection |
| title | Creativity and cognitive skills among millenials: Thinking too much and creating too little |
| title_full | Creativity and cognitive skills among millenials: Thinking too much and creating too little |
| title_fullStr | Creativity and cognitive skills among millenials: Thinking too much and creating too little |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creativity and cognitive skills among millenials: Thinking too much and creating too little |
| title_short | Creativity and cognitive skills among millenials: Thinking too much and creating too little |
| title_sort | creativity and cognitive skills among millenials thinking too much and creating too little |
| topic | Cognition Intelligence Intuition creativity Cognitive reflection |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01626/full |
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