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- Abstract
- The Multifaceted Approach to Measuring Creativity
- Creative Personality
- Convergent Creativity
- Everyday Creativity
- Awe and Creativity
- Background on Awe
- Awe and Creativity
- Awe, Curiosity, and Creativity
- The Current Research
- Pilot Study to Validate HEXACO Unconventionality and Creativity Personality
- Study 1: The Association of Trait Awe and Creative Personality in the U.S., Iran, and Malaysia
- Method
- Participants and Procedures
- Measures
- Trait Discrete Emotions
- Curiosity
- Creative Personality
- Results and Brief Discussion
- Is Trait Awe Associated with Curiosity and Creative Personality?
- Is Trait Awe Uniquely Associated with Curiosity and Creative Personality?
- Study 2: Trait Awe and Convergent Creativity
- Method
- Participants and Procedures
- Measures
- Trait Awe and Amusement
- Convergent Creativity
- Results and Brief Discussion
- Study 3: Daily Awe and Everyday Creative Activities Over Seven Days
- Method
- Participants and Procedure
- Measures
- Daily Awe
- Daily Amusement
- Daily Curiosity Emotion
- Daily Curiosity Personality
- Daily Big Five Personality
- Daily Creativity Question
- Daily Creative Behaviors
- Results and Brief Discussion
- Data Analyses
- Direct Effect
- Lagged Effect
- Indirect Effect
- General Discussion
- Implications and Future Directions
- Limitations
- Conclusion
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Abstract
Creativity has many benefits, such as workplace performance and life satisfaction. Three studies extended a small body of work to examine whether awe was associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creative behaviors (N = 1,844). Study 1 demonstrated that trait awe was associated with a more creative personality among adolescents and adults in the U.S., Iran, and Malaysia. Study 2 showed that trait awe was associated with an increased likelihood of solving the Duncker’s Candle Problem. Finally, Study 3 found that on days when participants felt more daily awe than they typically do, they reported having done more everyday creative activities. The effects of awe were independent of amusement (Studies 1–3) and Big Five personality (Study 3). Moreover, we found that daily curiosity explained the link between daily awe and daily creativity in Study 3. These results are the first to demonstrate a consistent link between awe and complementary measures of creativity. The discussion focuses on the limitations of the present work as well as implications of the present results for future research on awe and creativity.
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