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Confidence

Avoid putting participants “on stage”

An increase in arousal makes:

- Human behavior more stereotypical- Human written language more stereotypical

Hull C. I. (1943). Principles of behavior. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts

Meisels M. (1967). Test anxiety, stress, and verbal behavior. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 31, 577–582

Avoid group workin the vulnerable initial

phases

People are less creative when simply being watched

The bare presence of other people increases arousal (and thus diminish creativity)

Zajonc, R. (1965). Social facilitation. Science, 149, 269–274

Amabile, T. M., Goldfarb, P., & Brackfield, S. (1990). Social influences on creativity: Evaluation, coaction, and surveillance. Creativity Research Journal, 3, 6–21

Individual work before group work

Arousal might explain part of why brainstorming techniques seem to decrease creativity

Individual idea development should be followed by a brainstorming - not the other way around

Lindgren, H. C., & Lindgren, F. (1965). Brainstorming and orneriness as facilitators of creativity. Psychological Reports, 16, 577–583

Finke, R. A., Ward, T. B. & Smith, S. M. (1992). Creative cognition: theory, research and applications, Cambrigde, MA, MIT Press

Set participants freefrom their own discipline

High intrinsic motivation, combined with low extrinsic motivation,

helps individuals to be more independent of their field

because they are less susceptible to pressures to conform

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). The domain of creativity. In M. A. Runco & R. S. Albert (Eds.), Theories of creativity (pp. 190-214). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Postpone external evaluation until the very

last deadline

Self-evaluation is preferable to evaluation by others

Don’t make evaluations along the way

Rogers, C. (1954). Towards a theory of creativity. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 11, 249–260

Human fear

- Of making mistakes- Of being foolish

- Of loosing control- Of making wrong decisions

- That it won’t work

Byrge, C. & Hansen, S. (2009). The creative platform: A new paradigm for teaching creativity, Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 18, 33-50

No experienced Judgement

Please sit down

No-experienced Judgement

- Of ideas- Of the process

Byrge, C. (2010). Conceptualisation of creativity practices through action research: The case of the creative platform at aalborg

university, PhD thesis, Aalborg University

No-experienced Judgement

Between participants

Between participants and facilitator

Byrge, C. (2010). Conceptualisation of creativity practices through action research: The case of the creative platform at aalborg

university, PhD thesis, Aalborg University

No-experienced Judgement

- Of discipline- Of culture

- Of social structure

Byrge, C. (2010). Conceptualisation of creativity practices through action research: The case of the creative platform at aalborg

university, PhD thesis, Aalborg University

No-experienced Judgement

No- judgementvs.

No-experienced judgement

Byrge, C. (2010). Conceptualisation of creativity practices through action research: The case of the creative platform at aalborg

university, PhD thesis, Aalborg University

No-experienced Judgement

Byrge, C. (2010). Conceptualisation of creativity practices through action research: The case of the creative platform at aalborg

university, PhD thesis, Aalborg University

Rules are not enough

Social contracts are not enough

No-experienced Judgement

Byrge, C. (2010). Conceptualisation of creativity practices through action research: The case of the creative platform at aalborg

university, PhD thesis, Aalborg University

Take responsibility for the situation

Provide the experience of no-judgement