Gregory, J. P. and Greenway, T. S. (2019) The underlying architecture of the creative worlds of children: young persons from the UK and China unwittingly generate more concepts that violate ontological category structure than do older adults during an exemplar‐generation task. Journal of Creative Behavior, 53(3), pp. 349-362. (doi: 10.1002/jocb.206)
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Abstract
Is our cognition the underlying architecture of the recurrent and pan‐cultural imaginative ideas of children and adolescents? Recent cross‐cultural studies show that children and adolescents recall proportionally more creative, counterintuitive concepts than older adults. One outstanding concern is that cultural transmission is also constrained by how concepts emerge into culture. Hence, a broad sample of age demographics in UK and China (10–58 years; N = 90) participated in an exemplar‐generation task where participants assembled statements exemplifying conceptual categories of positive and negative emotion, imagery, humor, and inferential potential. Multiple regression analysis considering counterintuitiveness and age revealed young persons generated significantly more imaginative, counterintuitive ideas than older adults, in both UK and China groups. This cross‐cultural support for an underlying cognitive architecture of human creativity builds on Ward's (1994) research on structured imagination.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Gregory, Dr Justin |
| Authors: | Gregory, J. P., and Greenway, T. S. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > Theology and Religious Studies |
| Journal Name: | Journal of Creative Behavior |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| ISSN: | 0022-0175 |
| ISSN (Online): | 2162-6057 |
| Published Online: | 28 August 2017 |
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