Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Memorial Prize-winning work on “the analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” scaffolds an argument for an institutional approach to computational social creativity. Several Ostrom-inspired “creativity design principles” are explored and exemplified to illustrate the computational and institutional structures that are employed in current and potential comput...

Although creativity is attractive in a potential mate, it is unclear (i) whether the effects of creativity on attractiveness generalize to other social contexts and (ii) whether creativity has equivalent effects on men's and women's attractiveness. As social knowledge of creativity may either enhance or 'offset' the appeal of social partners who differ in physical attractiveness, three repeated...

Building on findings that self-uncertainty motivates attempts to restore certainty about the self, particularly in ways that highlight one's distinctiveness from others, we show that self-uncertainty, relative to uncertainty in general, increases creative generation among individualists. In Studies 1 to 3, high (but not low) individualists performed better on a creative generation task after be...

A worker in basic scientific research is motivated by a driving curiosity about the unknown. When his explorations yield new knowledge, he experiences the satisfaction of those who first attain the summit of a mountain or the upper reaches of a river flowing through unmapped territory. Discovery of truth and understanding of nature are his objectives. His professional standing among his fellows...

Using testing and questionnaire methods, this study investigated the relationships among openness to experience, intelligence and creative thinking. This study focused on the moderating effects of openness to experience on the relationship between intelligence and creative thinking in a sample of 831 primary school students in China. The findings showed significant positive relationships among ...

In this paper we discuss the use of graphical alternatives to stave notation, which has become a hot topic of debate within the arena of children’s musical creativity. Here we focus upon such graphical alternatives through a program called SoundScape, designed as a collaborative, creative music composition environment developed for school children. SoundScape replaces traditional stave notation...

We consider computational creativity as a search process and give a No Free Lunch result for computational creativity in this context. That is, we show that there is no a priori “best” creative strategy. We discuss some implications of this result and suggest some additional questions to be explored.

Automatic evaluation of fictional ideation systems and their output is a topic relevant to Computational Creativity. Models and techniques have been proposed for this task, but their applicability is limited to the field of fictional ideation. In this paper we describe an evaluation procedure for fictional ideation, which compares human validation of the ideas with a number of automatically gen...

this paper is composed based on the assumption that in order to reach creativity in design, methods of meaning creation and new concepts in humanities should be considered as important as methods of creativity in technical viewpoints. authors claim that lack of fruitful discussion and dialog between humanities and technical science in design had generated a problematic obstacle to creativity in...

During 2015 and early 2016, the cultural application of Computational Creativity research and practice took a big leap forward, with a project where multiple computational systems were used to provide advice and material for a new musical theatre production. Billed as the world’s first ‘computer musical ... conceived by computer and substantially crafted by computer’, Beyond The Fence was stage...