Social psychology of creativity: A consensual assessment technique.

1982 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 997-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa M. Amabile
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Consensual Assessment Technique ◽  
Psychology Of Creativity

scholarly journals Comment on “The Psychology of Creativity: A Critical Reading” by Vlad Petre Glăveanu

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Beth A. Hennessey
Keyword(s):  
Reform Movement ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Current State ◽  
Consensual Assessment Technique ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Core Mission ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Psychology Of Creativity

AbstractIn this commentary, I applaud Glăveanu’s attempts to shake things up and introduce some much-needed disruption into the study of creativity. Glăveanu is a “ big thinker” and he is correct to worry about the growing fragmentation of the field. I share his concern that the so-called “ social psychology of creativity” really isn’t all that social. Most researchers and theorists continue to decontextualize creativity, giving little attention to the cultural and environmental factors that contribute to creativity of performance. Yet Glăveanu also presents some arguments with which I disagree. Most striking is his apparent misunderstanding of the purpose and functioning of the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT). In addition, I am less surprised than is Glăveanu about the current state of our field. The same narrowing of research questions plagues every branch of the study of psychology. However, the tides may be changing. At the forefront of a reform movement are a number of creativity theorists and journal editors. My own hope is that as researchers are given license to expand their work to include a wide variety of experimental designs, methodologies and contexts, they will adopt as their core mission the promotion of the growth of creativity at the individual, group, societal and multi-cultural levels.

Creativity: The Social Psychology of Creativity.

Science ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 225 (4665) ◽  
pp. 918-919 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychology Of Creativity

scholarly journals Novelty and coherence in group creative processes

Psihologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-229
Author(s):  
Irena Ristic ◽  
Bojana Skorc ◽  
Tijana Mandic
Keyword(s):  
Group Processes ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Creative Achievement ◽  
Consensual Assessment Technique ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
High Level

A research of triadic creative processes was conducted based on the assumption that novelty and coherence are basic dimensions of group creativity, variations of which can explain differences in creative achievement. In a workshop, 153 students were divided in triads and created 51 chain-stories. Following the standards of Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT), eight independent judges assessed creativity, novelty and coherence in the integral stories. The most representative stories for low, middle and high creativity, were selected and subjected to further analysis. The results show that development of group creativity is conditioned by high level of novelty, and by balanced ratio of novelty and coherence that enable integration of unique ideas in group processes. Symmetrical contribution of members was not confirmed as one of the conditions, suggesting that group creativity is an emerging phenomenon, relying on relations rather than individual contributions of participants.

Note on Consensual Assessment Technique in Creativity Research

2005 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 592-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Dollinger ◽  
Marina Shafran
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Slight Modification ◽  
Present Sample ◽  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
Consensual Assessment Technique ◽  
Creative Products ◽  
Product Creativity ◽  
Creativity Task

Amabile's Consensual Assessment Technique is commonly used in research on creative products. This study evaluates a modification of that technique which may facilitate research on creative products by calibrating nonexpert judges to expert judges in previous studies. University students ( N = 200; 59% women, M = 22.3 yr. of age, SD = 5.5) devised drawings to the Test of Creative Thinking-Drawing Production stimulus. These drawing products were rated by five artist-judges using the CAT and five psychologist-judges who first viewed 16 examples of the range of drawings in a previous study, referred to here as the modified consensual assessment technique. The 20 ratings of product creativity loaded on a single principal component, and the mean ratings correlated .91. Finally, the correlations of these ratings with other measures of creativity were nearly identical. Thus, a slight modification of the technique may be useful in programmatic research when the creativity task is not modified across studies and participants are like the present sample rather than from groups with specialized training or artistic talent.

scholarly journals The Psychology of Creativity: A Discussion Between Creative Potential and Its Realization

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Gralewski
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Social Conditioning ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Psychology Of Creativity

AbstractThis text is devoted to a discussion of current achievements in the psychology of creativity, as well as to the further development of the field. It is concerned with a criticism of former and current theses in the field of the psychology of creativity discussed by Glăveanu (2014). The arguments presented indicate that, despite Glăveanu’s (2014) proposition, the psychology of creativity is not in crisis. It is pointed out that the difference in views between supporters of the social psychology approach to creativity and psychology researchers oriented towards the study of creative potential on how to conduct creativity research, stems from a concentration on different levels of creativity, and not necessarily from an ineffective theory of creativity. As a consequence of these different perceptions of creativity at its particular levels, determining the prime standard of creative potential is not sufficient to understand the social conditioning of creative activity and the social assessment of creativity, and vice versa.

scholarly journals The whole is more than the sum of its parts – assessing writing using the consensual assessment technique

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Daniela Zahn ◽  
Ursula Canton ◽  
Victoria Boyd ◽  
Laura Hamilton ◽  
Josianne Mamo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Consensual Assessment Technique
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