e05: Inspiration & Creativity
Oct. 12th, 2022
18:00-19:00 CET (Europe) • 1:00-2:00 EST (North America, Eastern)
We’ll be discussing “Inspiration in the creative process” by Cui and colleagues (2022). This theoretical paper explores inspiration and creativity. The paper reviews the basic conceptualization of inspiration as an emotional and motivational state and outlines it’s relationship with the creative process.
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📄 Cui, Thrash, Shkeyrov, & Varga, 2020:
Inspiration in the creative process. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity, 3rd edition, Vol. 1 (pp. 660-666). Elsevier, Academic Press.
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Inspiration plays a central role in the creative process. The research literature on inspiration developed only recently due to inconsistency in definition and due to the presumption that inspiration is unimportant relative to effort. The authors introduce a validated conceptualization of inspiration and review empirical evidence that inspiration predicts creativity, serves a transmission function, promotes productivity, and complements exertion of effort. Inspiration is then distinguished from insight and other constructs. Finally, the authors consider the broader cultural phenomenon of inspiration contagion. Inspiration is infectious, such that inspired writers inspire their readers, particularly readers high in openness to experience.