TY - CHAP
T1 - Affect and creativity
AU - Madrid, Hector P.
AU - Patterson, Malcolm G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - The question of how the affective experience influences creativity has fascinated and captured the interest of work and organizational psychology and organizational behavior scholars over time. In this chapter, we survey, discuss, and summarize theoretical and empirical research addressing this question, reviewing findings affirming the importance of positive and negative affective states for the generation of novel and useful ideas in the workplace. Furthermore, we apply the Theory of Core Affect to the body of research in this area, which describes the affective experience in terms of affective valence (positive vs negative), but also as a function of activation (energy expenditure). Drawing on this, we argue how a wider array of affective states described by blends of affective valence and activation may influence creative performance, by means of discrete cognitive and behavioral correlates.
AB - The question of how the affective experience influences creativity has fascinated and captured the interest of work and organizational psychology and organizational behavior scholars over time. In this chapter, we survey, discuss, and summarize theoretical and empirical research addressing this question, reviewing findings affirming the importance of positive and negative affective states for the generation of novel and useful ideas in the workplace. Furthermore, we apply the Theory of Core Affect to the body of research in this area, which describes the affective experience in terms of affective valence (positive vs negative), but also as a function of activation (energy expenditure). Drawing on this, we argue how a wider array of affective states described by blends of affective valence and activation may influence creative performance, by means of discrete cognitive and behavioral correlates.
KW - Affect
KW - Behavior
KW - Cognition
KW - Core affect
KW - Creativity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070393354&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-813238-8.00011-5
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-813238-8.00011-5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85070393354
SN - 9780128132395
SP - 245
EP - 265
BT - Individual Creativity in the Workplace
PB - Elsevier
ER -