Showing posts with label bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bias. Show all posts

Saturday, November 19, 2011

A creativity bias?

CEOs, teachers, and leaders claim they want creative ideas to solve problems. But creative ideas are rejected all the time. A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people have a hidden bias against creativity. We claim to like creativity, but when we’re feeling uncertain and anxious—just the way you might feel when you’re trying to come up with a creative solution to a problem—we cannot recognize the creative ideas we so desire.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/is-there-a-hidden-bias-against-creativity.html

Friday, September 2, 2011

People are biased against creative ideas

The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you might just pity those co-workers. Fresh research indicates they don't even know what a creative idea looks like and that creativity, hailed as a positive change agent, actually makes people squirm.According to this study people want but reject creative ideas.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug11/ILRCreativityBias.html