The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity.
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted a reinforcement learning framework of Q learn...
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| description | The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted a reinforcement learning framework of Q learning to provide a simple, rigorous account of behavior in the decision-making process and examined the determinants of divergent and convergent thinking. Our findings revealed that risk-taking has positive effects on divergent thinking, but not related to convergent thinking. In particular, divergent thinkers with a high learning capacity were more likely to engage in risk-taking when facing losses than when facing gains. This risk-taking behavior not only contributes to the rapid achievement of learning convergence, but is also associated with high performance in divergent thinking tasks. Conversely, both exploitation and exploration had no significant effects on creativity once these risk attitudes were considered. Moreover, while convergent thinking relied on personality characteristics, it was not associated with risk-taking, exploitation, or exploration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e6d80a34e2942efa34b7dea91f841672022-12-21T18:39:47ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032020-01-01157e023569810.1371/journal.pone.0235698The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity.Tsutomu HaradaThe purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted a reinforcement learning framework of Q learning to provide a simple, rigorous account of behavior in the decision-making process and examined the determinants of divergent and convergent thinking. Our findings revealed that risk-taking has positive effects on divergent thinking, but not related to convergent thinking. In particular, divergent thinkers with a high learning capacity were more likely to engage in risk-taking when facing losses than when facing gains. This risk-taking behavior not only contributes to the rapid achievement of learning convergence, but is also associated with high performance in divergent thinking tasks. Conversely, both exploitation and exploration had no significant effects on creativity once these risk attitudes were considered. Moreover, while convergent thinking relied on personality characteristics, it was not associated with risk-taking, exploitation, or exploration.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235698 |
| spellingShingle | Tsutomu Harada The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity. PLoS ONE |
| title | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity. |
| title_full | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity. |
| title_fullStr | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity. |
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| title_short | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity. |
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