Publications

1 Sep 1983
Conference Presentation

Social Environments that Kill Creativity

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity

1 Aug 1983
Conference Presentation

Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writing

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity; Nonverbal Communication; Motivation and Incentives

1983
Book

The Social Psychology of Creativity

Keywords: Creativity

March 1983
Article

Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators

Using edited excerpts from actual negative and positive book reviews, this research examined the hypothesis that negative evaluators of intellectual products will be perceived as more intelligent than positive evaluators. The results strongly supported the hypothesis.... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Situation or Environment; Performance Evaluation; Perception; Status and Position; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence

August 1983
Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Componential Conceptualization

Considers the definition and assessment of creativity and presents a componential framework for conceptualizing this faculty. Including domain-relevant skills, creativity-relevant skills, and task motivation as a set of necessary and sufficient components of... View Details

Keywords: Theory; Social Psychology; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Characteristics

1982
Book

Psychological Research in the Classroom: Issues for Educators and Researchers

By: T. M. Amabile and M. L. Stubbs

Keywords: Social Psychology; Education

1982
Chapter

Informal Covariation Assessment: Data-based vs. Theory-based Judgements

By: D. Jennings, T. M. Amabile and L. D. Ross

Keywords: Mathematical Methods

1 Apr 1982
Conference Presentation

Negativity in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Reviews

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Social Psychology

January 1982
Article

A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation

By: T. M. Amabile and A. H. Glazebrook

Two studies were conducted to demonstrate a bias toward negativity in evaluations of persons or their work in particular social circumstances. In Study 1, subjects evaluated materials written by peers. Those working under conditions that placed them in low status... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Status and Position; Prejudice and Bias; Performance Evaluation; Situation or Environment; Perception; Attitudes

1982
Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting

Girls whose ages ranged from 7 to 11 years made paper collages during 1 of 2 residential parties. Those in the experimental group were competing for prizes, whereas those in the control group expected that the prizes would be raffled off. Artist-judges later rated each... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Competition; Teaching

November 1982
Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique

States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Measurement and Metrics; Research; Perception; Theory

1982
Article

When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words

By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat

Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Perception; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments