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Creative Potential in Science: Conceptual and Measurement Issues

This paper examines the concept of creative potential as it applies in science. First, conceptual issues concerning the definition of creative potential are explored, highlighting that creative potential is a moving target, and measures of creative potential are estimates of future behavior. Then th...

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Autores principales: Lubart, Todd, Kharkhurin, Anatoliy V., Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele, Besançon, Maud, Yagolkovskiy, Sergey R., Sak, Ugur
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35719463
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.750224
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author Lubart, Todd
Kharkhurin, Anatoliy V.
Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele
Besançon, Maud
Yagolkovskiy, Sergey R.
Sak, Ugur
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description This paper examines the concept of creative potential as it applies in science. First, conceptual issues concerning the definition of creative potential are explored, highlighting that creative potential is a moving target, and measures of creative potential are estimates of future behavior. Then three main ways to detect creative potential are examined. First, a person’s previous accomplishments in science can be analyzed. These accomplishments can be regarded as predictors of future creative performance. Second, science talent competitions can help to detect creative potential in children and adolescents. There are particular types of talent competitions differing from each other by the extent of focusing on individual (e.g., Science Fairs) or collaborative (e.g., Science Olympiads) work. Third, to measure an individual’s creative potential, psychometric tools such as Creative Scientific Ability Test (C-SAT), Test of Scientific Creativity Animations for Children (TOSCAC), and Evaluation of Potential Creativity (EPoC) can be used. These tools are conceptualized in terms of two scientific activities: hypothesis generation and hypothesis testing. In a final section, these three types of measures are placed in a novel time-space framework as applied to creative potential. Suggestions for future work are also discussed.
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spelling pubmed-91999562022-06-16 Creative Potential in Science: Conceptual and Measurement Issues Lubart, Todd Kharkhurin, Anatoliy V. Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele Besançon, Maud Yagolkovskiy, Sergey R. Sak, Ugur Front Psychol Psychology This paper examines the concept of creative potential as it applies in science. First, conceptual issues concerning the definition of creative potential are explored, highlighting that creative potential is a moving target, and measures of creative potential are estimates of future behavior. Then three main ways to detect creative potential are examined. First, a person’s previous accomplishments in science can be analyzed. These accomplishments can be regarded as predictors of future creative performance. Second, science talent competitions can help to detect creative potential in children and adolescents. There are particular types of talent competitions differing from each other by the extent of focusing on individual (e.g., Science Fairs) or collaborative (e.g., Science Olympiads) work. Third, to measure an individual’s creative potential, psychometric tools such as Creative Scientific Ability Test (C-SAT), Test of Scientific Creativity Animations for Children (TOSCAC), and Evaluation of Potential Creativity (EPoC) can be used. These tools are conceptualized in terms of two scientific activities: hypothesis generation and hypothesis testing. In a final section, these three types of measures are placed in a novel time-space framework as applied to creative potential. Suggestions for future work are also discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9199956/ /pubmed/35719463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.750224 Text en Copyright © 2022 Lubart, Kharkhurin, Corazza, Besançon, Yagolkovskiy and Sak. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199956/
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