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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Cognition
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1403714

Creative ideas generation and Personality: evidence from Process Communication Model

Provisionally accepted
Anaelle Camarda Anaelle Camarda 1,2*Sixtine Lefebvre Sixtine Lefebvre 3
  • 1 Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
  • 2 LaPEA, Boulogne Billancourt, France
  • 3 Kahler Communication France, Croisy-sur-Eure, France

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    The present study investigated the relation between personality and ideas generation abilities. Ideas generation was assessed by the "egg task" in which participants had to generate as many solutions as possible to design ways to drop a hen's egg from a height of 10 m so that it does not break. The 102 participants were also presented with the standard Process Communication Model (PCM) questionnaire. Results suggest that idea generation varied according to PCM Base Type of participants. Even if five out of six Base Types (Thinker, Persister, Harmonizer, Promoter and Rebel) presented similar fluency and categorical flexibility, Imaginer Base presented higher scores than other Base Types. These results, discussed according to cognitive control abilities, reinforce the view that PCM can highlight an individual's creative performance considering interindividual differences.

    Keywords: Process Communication Model, fluency, Flexibility, creativity, Personality

    Received: 19 Mar 2024; Accepted: 13 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Camarda and Lefebvre. 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) or licensor 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.

    * Correspondence: Anaelle Camarda, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

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