Monday, September 5, 2011

Why we crave creativity but reject creative ideas

People including most of us favor creativity but on confrontation we often back off from a novel creative idea. Keeping this question in mind researchers at University of Pennsylvania report the experiments in journal Psychological Science. The important points of the studies are given below:    
  • Creative ideas are by definition novel, and novelty can trigger feelings of uncertainty that make most people uncomfortable. 
  • People dismiss creative ideas in favor of ideas that are purely practical -- tried and true. 
  • Objective evidence shoring up the validity of a creative proposal does not motivate people to accept it. 
  • Anti-creativity bias is so subtle that people are unaware of it, which can interfere with their ability to recognize a creative idea.

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