Capturing, clarifying, and consolidating the curiosity-creativity connection
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The cognitive-motivational concepts of curiosity and creativity are often viewed as intertwined. Yet, despite the intuitively strong linkage between these two concepts, the existing cognitive-behavioral evidence for a curiosity-creativity connection is not strong, and is nearly entirely based on self-report measures. Using a new lab-based Curiosity Q&A task we evaluate to what extent behaviorally manifested curiosity—as revealed in autonomous inquiry and exploration—is associated with creative performance. In a preregistered study ( N = 179) we show that, as hypothesized, the novelty of the questions that participants generated during the Curiosity Q&A Task significantly positively correlated with the originality of their responses on a divergent-thinking task (the conceptually-based Alternative Uses Task). Additionally, the extent to which participants sought out information that was implicitly missing in the presented factual stimuli ("gap-related information foraging") positively correlated with performance on two predominantly convergent-thinking tasks (the Remote Associates Task and Analogy Completion). Question asking, topic-related information foraging, and creative performance correlated with trait-based "interest-type" curiosity oriented toward exploration and novelty, but not with "deprivation-type" curiosity focused on dispelling uncertainty or ignorance. Theoretically and practically, these results underscore the importance of continuing to develop interventions that foster both creative thinking and active autonomous inquiry.
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The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is widely used in prior research for measuring convergent thinking.
“We selected this task due to its widespread use in prior research [16,34], and its compatibility with LLMs.”
From Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking (2025) · cites this paper as [34]
The Introduction identifies the Remote Associates Task as an assessment that predominantly calls on convergent thinking, and the Methods describe its use in this study. The paper does not establish that the RAT was widely used in prior research; its statements that a task was often or extensively used refer to the Alternative Uses Task. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Koutstaal, W., Kedrick, K., & Gonzalez-Brito, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Koutstaal, Wilma
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2022-09-12
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 15300-15300
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9468176
- OpenAlex
- W4295250390
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 5.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychological and Educational Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- curiosity, creativity, autonomous inquiry, information foraging, questioning, divergent thinking, convergent thinking, remote associates task, alternative uses task, creativity interventions
- MeSH terms
- Creativity, Exploratory Behavior, Humans
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