Openness to experience predicts creative metaphor quality, and controlling for personality reduces Gc's creative-metaphor effect to zero¶
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q3 i? Openness to experience had a substantial effect on creative metaphor quality (β = .61, p < .001), remaining significant (β = .35) when intelligence factors were included. → Roger E. Beaty & Paul J. Silvia 2013
Evidence¶
Roger E. Beaty & Paul J. Silvia 2013¶
Roger E. Beaty & Paul J. Silvia. (2013). Metaphorically speaking: cognitive abilities and the production of figurative language. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-012-0258-5
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SEM with the NEO-FFI five factors as observed predictors of creative metaphor in 191 undergraduates found "openness to experience had a substantial effect on creative metaphor quality ( β 0 .61, p < .001)"; other personality factors were small and nonsignificant.
"openness to experience had a substantial effect on creative metaphor quality ( β 0 .61, p < .001). All other personality variables had small and non- significant effects."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- General Cognitive Ability — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
- Personality Traits — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- Creative and conventional metaphors are anchored in different patterns of cognitive abilities — related
- Fluid intelligence strongly predicts the creative quality of produced metaphors (β = .45) — related
- Openness to experience predicts creativity but not fluid intelligence, and further reduces the residual intelligence–creativity correlation to a trend. — related
- Updating ability, together with openness, explains a substantial part of the shared variance between fluid intelligence and creativity. — related
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Openness to experience predicts creative metaphor quality, and controlling for personality reduces Gc's creative-metaphor effect to zero |
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Openness to experience predicts creative metaphor quality, and controlling for personality reduces Gc's creative-metaphor effect to zero |
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