Is it new? Personal and contextual influences on perceptions of novelty and creativity
| Autor: | Junfeng Wu, Jing Zhou, Lynda Jiwen Song, Xiaoye May Wang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Employment Male media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Creativity Young Adult Perception 0502 economics and business Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Applied Psychology media_common Social perception 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Novelty Regulatory focus theory Contextual Associations Organisation climate Organizational Culture Social Perception Female Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Psychology. 102:180-202 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1854 0021-9010 |
| Popis: | Novelty recognition is the crucial starting point for extracting value from the ideas generated by others. In this paper we develop an associative evaluation account for how personal and contextual factors motivate individuals to perceive novelty and creativity. We report 4 studies that systematically tested hypotheses developed from this perspective. Study 1 (a laboratory experiment) showed that perceivers' regulatory focus, as an experimentally induced state, affected novelty perception. Study 2 (a field study) found that perceivers' promotion focus and prevention focus, measured as chronic traits, each interacted with normative level of novelty and creativity: perceivers who scored higher on promotion focus perceived more novelty (or creativity) in novel (or creative) targets than those who scored lower, whereas perceivers who scored higher on prevention focus perceived less novelty (or creativity) in novel (or creative) targets than those who scored lower. Study 3 (a field study) showed that organizational culture affected the perception of novelty and creativity. Study 4 (a laboratory experiment) found perceiver-by-idea-by-context 3-way interaction effects: for perceivers with prevention focus, the positive relation between normative level of novelty and novelty ratings was weakened in the loss-framing condition versus the gain-framing condition. We discuss implications of the findings for future research and management practice. (PsycINFO Database Record |
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