Most reviewed studies defending domain-generality are minimalist, and none treats creativity as an innate faculty¶

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q2 i? Of 36 selected articles, 29 defend the domain-general hypothesis: four mechanist, 17 minimalist, six maximalist, four unspecified; across defending and rejecting studies, creativity is never an innate faculty. → Sébastien Miravete 2024

Evidence¶

Sébastien Miravete 2024¶

Sébastien Miravete, André Tricot. (2024). Are Some People Generally More Creative Than Others? A Systematic Review of Fifty Years' Research. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09926-6

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Review's Results classification of the 36 selected studies (total 8,496 participants). The review adds: "for all these studies, creativity is never an innate faculty (even in part)". Counts are as printed in the text.

"29 of these 36 articles defend the domain-general hypotheses: Four studies are “mechanist” (two of them are both mechanical and minimalist); 17 are “minimalist”; Six are “maximalist”; Four are unspecified (“ø”)."

Discussion¶

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