Primera presentación de Mark Runco para el curso de verano "La bella durmiente"

1. Results of the Empirical Research
on Creativity
MARK A. RUNCO, PHD
TORRANCE PROFESSOR OF CREATIVITY
STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF
GEORGIA, ATHENS, GA, USA

2. Today’s discussion…
 Key findings from the research
 Also the exceptions
 And qualifications of those findings that make them
more reasonable and realistic

3. Implicit & Explicit Theories
 Parents
 Teachers
 Creativity vs. the ideal student
 Valuing creativity …but value unconventional behavior?
 Managers
 Children

4. Divergent Thinking & Ideation
Family Studies
Birth Order
“Sibsize”
IQ vs. DT
Longitudinal Evidence
 Torrance 50 year study
 Transition to school? Or biology?
 Lopez et al. (1993) with bilingual Hispanics in US
 Ideational indicators changed at different rates
 Bilingualism contributing to creativity?

5. Creativity & Intelligence
 Threshold Theory
 A continuum, or complementary processes?
 Divergent and convergent thinking for creativity

6. Domain differences
 Writers, architects, scientists at IPAR
 Personality differences
 Multiple “intelligences”
 Math, language, music, spatial, bodily, inter- and
intra-personal, naturalistic
 Not really “intelligence,” and NOT creativity

7. Counterpoint: Universals
 Intrinsic motivation
 At least at level of “performance”
 Divergent Thinking
 “Parsimonious Creativity”
 Capacity to construct original interpretations

8. Creative Cognition
 Divergent thinking
 Fluency, flexibility, originality
 Genepolore
 Brainstorming
 Postpone judgment, quantity not quality, piggyback ideas
 Meta-cognition
Tactics
 Look to nature
 Wright Brothers, Velcro…

9. Extra-cognitive facets
 Affect
 Spreading activation
 Mood
 Attitude
 Values
 Culture

10. Cultural, Social Influences
 Collectivistic vs. Individualistic
 Creativity Cities?
 Values & the “Market” for Creativity
 Costs and benefits

11. fMRI
 Jazz improvisation
 Rap
 Prefrontal cortex for decisions
 Right hemisphere for wide associations
 “Remote Associations” for creativity

12. Highlights
 Cognition, affect, motivation, personality, attitude…
 There are many possible influences
 There are different kids of creativity
 Domain differences
 Age differences
 Different paths to creativity
 Different ways to be creative