[QUESTION] Ambivalence and Creativity

[Iris K. Schneider]

I am very interested in the relationship between Ambivalence and Creativity. There is this great paper by Fong (2006) in which she shows that (emotional) ambivalence increases associatiative thought as evidenced on the Remote Associaties Test. I am wondering if anyone knows of other papers investigating this relationship, or whether anybody else has been looking at this in their own work.

Fong, C. T. (2006). The effects of emotional ambivalence on creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 49(5), 1016-1030.

https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMJ.2006.22798182

[jlarsen6]

I also think this is a really neat paper. I don't know of any other work on this topic. Some replications would be a good starting point.

[Iris K. Schneider]

This could potentially be a nice student/class project.

[Raul Berrios]

Indirectly related to creativity, but there is some research examining the role of mixed emotions on entrepreneurship.

This relationship has been studied in terms of the influence of mixed emotions on risk perception...

Podoynitsyna, K., Van der Bij, H., & Song, M. (2012). The role of mixed emotions in the risk perception of novice and serial entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 36(1), 115-140.

...and regarding the role of mixed emotions in passion in entrepreneurship....

Cardon, M. S., Wincent, J., Singh, J., & Drnovsek, M. (2005, August). ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION: THE NATURE OF EMOTIONS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2005, No. 1, pp. G1-G6). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

[Sanchez-Burks]

An alternative interpretation of Study 1 in this paper suggested that it was priming [embodied] ambivalence (thinking about an issue from two opposing perspectives) rather than a more abstract metaphor per se. As an author of the paper, I had mixed feelings about that: 

Leung, A., et al (2012) Embodied Metaphors and Creative “Acts”, Psychological Science 22(5) 502-509

[Naomi Rothman]

Hi Iris -

I have some in-progress evidence that when a team leader expresses mixed emotions during the course of a final project (as rated by team members) that the team members are rated as more innovative (by the team leader).

So it's a social effect of expressed emotional ambivalence on innovation (rather than effect of experiencing emotional ambivalence on creativity, as Fong shows).

Naomi

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Lehigh University

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[Iris K. Schneider]

That is a cool finding! I wonder if third parties would also find the team members more innovative?

My student is doing kind of a conceptual replication of Fong (2006) but using the Brick Task (coming up with creative, unusual alternative uses of an object), although this might tap more into generation and originality than scope of association.

On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:45:51 UTC+8, Naomi Rothman wrote:

Hi Iris -

I have some in-progress evidence that when a team leader expresses mixed emotions during the course of a final project (as rated by team members) that the team members are rated as more innovative (by the team leader).

So it's a social effect of expressed emotional ambivalence on innovation (rather than effect of experiencing emotional ambivalence on creativity, as Fong shows).

Naomi

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:55 AM Sanchez-Burks <jeff...@umich.edu> wrote:

An alternative interpretation of Study 1 in this paper suggested that it was priming [embodied] ambivalence (thinking about an issue from two opposing perspectives) rather than a more abstract metaphor per se. As an author of the paper, I had mixed feelings about that: 

Leung, A., et al (2012) Embodied Metaphors and Creative “Acts”, Psychological Science 22(5) 502-509

On Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 10:33:25 AM UTC-4, Raul Berrios wrote:

Indirectly related to creativity, but there is some research examining the role of mixed emotions on entrepreneurship.

This relationship has been studied in terms of the influence of mixed emotions on risk perception...

Podoynitsyna, K., Van der Bij, H., & Song, M. (2012). The role of mixed emotions in the risk perception of novice and serial entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 36(1), 115-140.

...and regarding the role of mixed emotions in passion in entrepreneurship....

Cardon, M. S., Wincent, J., Singh, J., & Drnovsek, M. (2005, August). ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION: THE NATURE OF EMOTIONS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2005, No. 1, pp. G1-G6). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

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