Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2017 Jun;112(6):901-925. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000105. Epub 2017 Mar 2.
Western culture has 2 contradictory images of creativity: the artist as intensely emotional versus the artist as sublimator, for whom work becomes the outlet for what is repressed and denied. We show that both images are correct, but that the routes to creativity are culturally patterned, such that Catholic creatives are relatively more likely to take the emotionally intense route and Protestant creatives relatively more likely to take the sublimating route. This pattern is consistent for both the Big-C creativity of historical eminents (Studies 1 and 1b) and small-c creativity of student samples (Studies 2 and 3). The student samples also highlighted the moderating role of Protestant asceticism, as Protestants who were high in asceticism and who also repressed or minimized troublesome emotions were particularly creative. Analyses of behavioral data in previous lab experiments (Studies 2b and 3b) provided conceptual validation of the findings reported in Studies 2 and 3. (PsycINFO Database Record
艺术家是强烈情绪化的，而艺术家是升华者，对后者来说，工作成为压抑和否认的东西的出口。我们表明，这两种形象都是正确的，但创造力的途径是文化模式化的，因此天主教创意者更有可能走情绪化的道路，而新教创意者更有可能走升华的道路。这种模式在历史名人的大 C 创造力（研究 1 和 1b）和学生样本的小 c 创造力（研究 2 和 3）中都是一致的。学生样本还强调了新教禁欲主义的调节作用，因为那些高度禁欲、压抑或最小化麻烦情绪的新教徒特别有创造力。对先前实验室实验中的行为数据的分析（研究 2b 和 3b）为研究 2 和 3 中报告的发现提供了概念验证。
