How Does Culture Shape Creativity? A Mini-Review
The purpose of this study was to examine how culture shapes creativity by reviewing empirical findings across diverse studies. The impact of culture on creativity is typically manifested in three ways: (1) people from different cultures or settings have distinct implicit and/or explicit conceptions...
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| description | The purpose of this study was to examine how culture shapes creativity by reviewing empirical findings across diverse studies. The impact of culture on creativity is typically manifested in three ways: (1) people from different cultures or settings have distinct implicit and/or explicit conceptions of creativity; (2) individuals from different cultures, particularly those from individualist and collectivist cultures, show differences in preferred creative processes and creative processing modes (e.g., usefulness seems more important than novelty in the East, whereas novelty seems equally important as usefulness, if not more so, in the West) when they are engaged in creative endeavors; (3) creativity may be assessed using different measures based on culture-related contents or materials, and findings are accurate only when culturally appropriate or culturally fair measures are used. Potential implications and future directions are also proposed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ef0a6756fb2b4014b0030474bdfc6fd42022-12-21T19:07:15ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-05-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.01219434004How Does Culture Shape Creativity? A Mini-ReviewYong Shao0Chenchen Zhang1Jing Zhou2Ting Gu3Yuan Yuan4College of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, ChinaSchool of Art, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaDepartment of Art Design, Changzhou Art Vocational College of Jiangsu Province, Changzhou, ChinaDepartment of Information Media, The City Vocational College of Jiangsu, Suzhou, ChinaSchool of Rehabilitation Science, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Special Children’s Impairment and Intervention, Nanjing Normal University of Special Education, Nanjing, ChinaThe purpose of this study was to examine how culture shapes creativity by reviewing empirical findings across diverse studies. The impact of culture on creativity is typically manifested in three ways: (1) people from different cultures or settings have distinct implicit and/or explicit conceptions of creativity; (2) individuals from different cultures, particularly those from individualist and collectivist cultures, show differences in preferred creative processes and creative processing modes (e.g., usefulness seems more important than novelty in the East, whereas novelty seems equally important as usefulness, if not more so, in the West) when they are engaged in creative endeavors; (3) creativity may be assessed using different measures based on culture-related contents or materials, and findings are accurate only when culturally appropriate or culturally fair measures are used. Potential implications and future directions are also proposed.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01219/fullculturecreativityconceptualizationthinking patterncreative process |
| spellingShingle | Yong Shao Chenchen Zhang Jing Zhou Ting Gu Yuan Yuan How Does Culture Shape Creativity? A Mini-Review Frontiers in Psychology culture creativity conceptualization thinking pattern creative process |
| title | How Does Culture Shape Creativity? A Mini-Review |
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| title_short | How Does Culture Shape Creativity? A Mini-Review |
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| topic | culture creativity conceptualization thinking pattern creative process |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01219/full |
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