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The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted a reinforcement learning framework of Q learn...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32730273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235698 |
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description | The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted a reinforcement learning framework of Q learning to provide a simple, rigorous account of behavior in the decision-making process and examined the determinants of divergent and convergent thinking. Our findings revealed that risk-taking has positive effects on divergent thinking, but not related to convergent thinking. In particular, divergent thinkers with a high learning capacity were more likely to engage in risk-taking when facing losses than when facing gains. This risk-taking behavior not only contributes to the rapid achievement of learning convergence, but is also associated with high performance in divergent thinking tasks. Conversely, both exploitation and exploration had no significant effects on creativity once these risk attitudes were considered. Moreover, while convergent thinking relied on personality characteristics, it was not associated with risk-taking, exploitation, or exploration. |
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spelling | pubmed-73923102020-08-05 The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity Harada, Tsutomu PLoS One Research Article The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted a reinforcement learning framework of Q learning to provide a simple, rigorous account of behavior in the decision-making process and examined the determinants of divergent and convergent thinking. Our findings revealed that risk-taking has positive effects on divergent thinking, but not related to convergent thinking. In particular, divergent thinkers with a high learning capacity were more likely to engage in risk-taking when facing losses than when facing gains. This risk-taking behavior not only contributes to the rapid achievement of learning convergence, but is also associated with high performance in divergent thinking tasks. Conversely, both exploitation and exploration had no significant effects on creativity once these risk attitudes were considered. Moreover, while convergent thinking relied on personality characteristics, it was not associated with risk-taking, exploitation, or exploration. Public Library of Science 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7392310/ /pubmed/32730273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235698 Text en © 2020 Tsutomu Harada http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Harada, Tsutomu The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity |
title | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity |
title_full | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity |
title_fullStr | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity |
title_full_unstemmed | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity |
title_short | The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity |
title_sort | effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32730273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235698 |
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