TY - GEN
T1 - A perspective-change based account of creativity evaluation
T2 - 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019
AU - Yang, Shiyu
AU - Loewenstein, Jeffrey
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Why do people experience something as creative? We propose a perspective-change based account of creativity evaluation. Drawing upon structure mapping theory (Gentner, 1983), we show that people evaluate a simile to be creative when they spontaneously (Study 1) or are induced (Study 2) to experience a change in perspective. This account further predicts that people are unlikely to find a simile creative if they are unable to form a working perspective, as is in the case of anomalies. In addition, a simile is unlikely to be evaluated as creative when people's initial perspectives are sufficient to interpret the simile, as in the case of literal statements. We further show that repeated use of the same perspective suppresses the experience of perspective change and thus reduces creativity perception (Study 3).
AB - Why do people experience something as creative? We propose a perspective-change based account of creativity evaluation. Drawing upon structure mapping theory (Gentner, 1983), we show that people evaluate a simile to be creative when they spontaneously (Study 1) or are induced (Study 2) to experience a change in perspective. This account further predicts that people are unlikely to find a simile creative if they are unable to form a working perspective, as is in the case of anomalies. In addition, a simile is unlikely to be evaluated as creative when people's initial perspectives are sufficient to interpret the simile, as in the case of literal statements. We further show that repeated use of the same perspective suppresses the experience of perspective change and thus reduces creativity perception (Study 3).
KW - analogy
KW - creativity evaluation
KW - perspective-change
KW - simile
KW - structure mapping theory
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019
SP - 3157
EP - 3163
BT - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 27 July 2019
ER -