ERIC Number: EJ1422241
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1040-0419
EISSN: EISSN-1532-6934
Creativity in Emergency Settings
E. Bonetto; J. B. Pavani; G. Dezecache; N. Pichot; T. Guiller; M. Simoni; V. Fointiat; T. Arciszewski
Creativity Research Journal, v36 n2 p365-377 2024
Emergency situations are generally described as combining both threat and time pressure. Creative solutions to deal with such situations are important. The present studies (N[subscript total] = 1190) investigated how people are able to produce creative solutions in an emergency. Our first study was correlational, and assessed individual creativity and reactions to emergency situations using self-report questionnaires. It was complemented by three experimental studies. In those, critical features of emergency situations were manipulated (i.e., time pressure and/or threat level) to examine their putative impact on individual performance on creative tasks (Alternate Uses Task and Real Life Problem). Three dependent variables systematically qualified individuals' creative performance: "fluency" (i.e., the number of ideas proposed), "originality" (i.e., the average rarity of the ideas proposed), and "originality adjusted for fluency" (i.e., the rarity of the most original idea proposed). Taken together, the results observed tend to indicate that increasing emergency (i.e., increasing time constraint or threat importance) produced an average reduction in the originality of the ideas proposed. These results complement previously obtained results about the effect of stressful situations on creativity through the distinction made in this paper between two key components of emergency situations, namely time pressure and threat level.
Descriptors: Creativity, Emergency Programs, Problem Solving, Responses, Performance, Creative Thinking, Stress Variables, Foreign Countries, Time
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: France
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