Investigating the Effects of Prosocial Motivation on Creative Idea Generation
(2015) PSYP01 20141Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- During the last decades, research on motivation in creativity has mainly focused on examining how intrinsic and extrinsic motivators influence creative behavior, whereas little is known about effects of prosocial motivational processes on creative idea generation. The current study investigated how prosocial motivation affects creativity, ideational fluency and persistence. A sample of 40 Swedish young adults performed an as interesting framed idea generation task that was based on a real-world problem. Using a random experimental between-subject design with two conditions, participants performed the same idea generation task either 1) with an opportunity to have a prosocial impact on other people, or 2) without the opportunity to have a... (More)
- During the last decades, research on motivation in creativity has mainly focused on examining how intrinsic and extrinsic motivators influence creative behavior, whereas little is known about effects of prosocial motivational processes on creative idea generation. The current study investigated how prosocial motivation affects creativity, ideational fluency and persistence. A sample of 40 Swedish young adults performed an as interesting framed idea generation task that was based on a real-world problem. Using a random experimental between-subject design with two conditions, participants performed the same idea generation task either 1) with an opportunity to have a prosocial impact on other people, or 2) without the opportunity to have a prosocial impact. Results indicated no significant differences in creativity or persistence between the two conditions. Ideational fluency was significantly higher in the no impact condition compared to the prosocial impact condition. Results, limitations of the present study and future directions are discussed. (Less)
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- author
- Boeck, Martina LU
- supervisor
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- Ingegerd Carlsson LU
- Samuel West LU
- organization
- course
- PSYP01 20141
- year
- 2015
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- creativity, prosocial motivation, intrinsic motivation, ideational fluency, persistence, idea generation, prosocial impact
- language
- English
- id
- 5426022
- date added to LUP
- 2015-05-22 08:14:52
- date last changed
- 2015-05-22 14:05:50
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abstract = {{During the last decades, research on motivation in creativity has mainly focused on examining how intrinsic and extrinsic motivators influence creative behavior, whereas little is known about effects of prosocial motivational processes on creative idea generation. The current study investigated how prosocial motivation affects creativity, ideational fluency and persistence. A sample of 40 Swedish young adults performed an as interesting framed idea generation task that was based on a real-world problem. Using a random experimental between-subject design with two conditions, participants performed the same idea generation task either 1) with an opportunity to have a prosocial impact on other people, or 2) without the opportunity to have a prosocial impact. Results indicated no significant differences in creativity or persistence between the two conditions. Ideational fluency was significantly higher in the no impact condition compared to the prosocial impact condition. Results, limitations of the present study and future directions are discussed.}},
author = {{Boeck, Martina}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Investigating the Effects of Prosocial Motivation on Creative Idea Generation}},
year = {{2015}},
}