Malleable Creativity: Priming Content promotes Content-specific Creativity

The current study investigated whether creativity can be boosted by priming and whether the content of the priming can modulate creative performance either in content-general or content-specific manner. Our study demonstrates that implicit priming modulates creative performance in a content-specific...

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Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, YANG, S., CHAN, C. H., Nai, Z. L.
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1237
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:The current study investigated whether creativity can be boosted by priming and whether the content of the priming can modulate creative performance either in content-general or content-specific manner. Our study demonstrates that implicit priming modulates creative performance in a content-specific way, suggesting that creativity may be a domain-specific skill rather than a domain-general skill.