1841: Impressions and Expressions of Creativity: Expanding our Understanding of Creativity (16716)

Organizer(s)

• LV

  Lynne Vincent

  Syracuse U., United States
• JC

  Joel Carnevale

  Syracuse U., United States

Discussant(s)

• JG

  Jack Goncalo

  U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

In their 2023 introduction to a special issue on novel research on creativity published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, “Escaping irony: Making research on creativity in organizations more creative,” Berg and colleagues argued that “Like most literatures as they mature, the creativity literature has become—ironically—less creative.” They maintain that while novelty exists in creativity research, there is a shift to incrementalism. Lua, Liu, and Shalley (2023) echoed Berg and colleagues’ call for new directions in creativity research and highlighted underdeveloped areas in creativity research in their review and synthesis of creativity research. Consistent with this theme and to answer recent calls for novelty and more radical approaches to creativity research, our symposium brings together five papers that push the field forward by looking at underexamined and newer forms of creativity such as creative reputation and unexpected precursors to creativity such as genetics. Utilizing various methodologies (e.g., experimental, survey-based, longitudinal), the studies included in this symposium explore a diverse set of contexts and conditions that examine creativity in new ways, thus demonstrating the novelty and significant advancements in creativity research.

Presentations:

• 08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1841: Using Artificial Intelligence on Creative Tasks Makes Humans Overconfident about their Creativity (16716)
  

  Author: Sahoon Kim – U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Author: Aric Rindfleisch – U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Author: Jack Anthony Goncalo – U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Author: Carmen Julia Sanchez – U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1841: To Create with AI: Exploring the Social Evaluations of People Who Use AI for Creative Work (16716)
  

  Author: Anand Benegal – PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior

  Author: Lynne Catherine Vincent – Syracuse U.

  Author: Joel B. Carnevale – Syracuse U.
• 08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1841: A Little Help from the Water Cooler (16716)
  

  Author: Joel B. Carnevale – Syracuse U.

  Author: Lei Huang – Auburn U.
• 08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1841: Genius, Madness, and Success: A Genome-Wide Association Study of Occupational Creativity (16716)
  

  Author: Wendong Li – Chinese U. of Hong Kong

  Author: Xin Zhang – College of Business,Shanghai U. of Finance and Economics

  Author: Kaili Yu – The Chinese U. of Hong Kong

  Author: Yimo Zhu – National U. of Singapore

  Author: Nianyao Du – National U. of Singapore

  Author: Zhaoli Song – National U. of Singapore

  Author: Qiao Fan – Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore
• 08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1841: Dancing with Proactive Members in the Party of Creativity (16716)
  

  Author: Inseong Jeong – Lingnan U.

  Author: Shung Shin – Portland State U.

  Author: Yiqing Wang – Lingnan U.

  Author: Sejin Keem – Portland State U.

  Author: Wookje Sung – Hong Kong Baptist U.