Glăveanu Vlad Petre
London School of Economics and Political Science, Institute of Social Psychology, St Clements Building, Houghton Street, London, UK.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2011 Mar;45(1):100-15. doi: 10.1007/s12124-010-9147-2.
The present article addresses the question of 'When can we say something is creative?' and, in answering it, takes a critical stand towards past and present scientific definitions of creativity. It challenges an implicit assumption in much psychological theory and research that creativity exists as an 'objective' feature of persons or products, universally recognised and independent of social agreement and cultural systems of norms and beliefs. Focusing on everyday life creative outcomes, the article includes both theoretical accounts and empirical examples from a research exploring creativity evaluations in the context of folk art. In the end, a multi-layered perspective of creativity assessment emerges, integrating dimensions such as newness and originality, value and usefulness, subjective reception and cultural reception of creative products. Implications for how we understand and study creativity are discussed.
本文探讨了“我们何时可以说某物具有创造性？”这一问题，并在回答该问题时，对过去和现在关于创造力的科学定义持批判立场。它挑战了许多心理学理论和研究中一个隐含的假设，即创造力作为人或产品的一种“客观”特征而存在，被普遍认可且独立于社会共识以及规范和信仰的文化体系。本文聚焦于日常生活中的创造性成果，既包含理论阐述，也有来自一项在民间艺术背景下探索创造力评估的研究的实证例子。最后，出现了一个创造力评估的多层次视角，整合了诸如创造性产品的新颖性和原创性、价值和实用性、主观接受度和文化接受度等维度。文中还讨论了这对于我们如何理解和研究创造力的启示。
