Play and Scientific Creativity
A Critical Review and an Integrative Theoretical Framework
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 21345293 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Xiangyou Shen (0000-0001-9820-3866, Oregon State University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2023 |
| Volumen | 57 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 503-515 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Journal of Creative Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0022-0175 • E-ISSN: 2162-6057 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jocb.596 |
| OpenAlex | W4380987021 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 7 |
| Referencias citadas | 73 |
Emerging empirical evidence supports play's potential to stimulate and foster scientific creativity. Focusing on how play relates to scientific creativity in adulthood, this review synthesizes the current state of knowledge in four areas: the play element in scientific research, the playfulness of scientists, mechanisms through which play affects scientific creativity, and environmental factors key to the play‐to‐create process in scientists' work. The review highlights several limitations hindering further research development in this area. Specifically, existing studies: (a) are largely qualitative and focus on descriptive analysis of the forms and/or select aspects of play, (b) do not sufficiently consider the unique characteristics and processes of scientific research, and (c) decontextualize the creative process by separating the player‐creator from the environment. Building on this analysis, the author clarifies the conceptualization of play, playfulness, and scientific creativity, differentiates between creative and recreative play in relation to core scientific activities, and identifies useful conceptual and measurement tools to facilitate future domain‐specific empirical studies of play and scientific creativity. Collectively, these insights advance a new integrative theoretical framework—the play‐to‐create model—to encourage and guide systematic and contextualized investigations of how play, playfulness, creative processes, and the environment interact to generate creative scientific outcomes
Conceptualization · Creativity · Creativity technique · Empirical research · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Management science · Process (computing) · Scientific literature · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Engineering · Flow Experience in Various Fields · Mind wandering and attention · Psychology · Social Psychology
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation
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Organizational and institutional influences on creativity in scientific research
Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Creative Achievement Questionnaire
Counting the muses
The Effects of Personal and Contextual Characteristics on Creativity
Why Isn't Creativity More Important to Educational Psychologists? Potentials, Pitfalls, and Future Directions in Creativity Research
Bridging generality and specificity
The Standard Definition of Creativity
Science Observed
Playing with science
Children’s scientific curiosity
Openness to Experience and Intellect Differentially Predict Creative Achievement in the Arts and Sciences
The Effect of Perceived Challenges and Skills on the Quality of Subjective Experience
Refining the Nomological Net of the Adult Playfulness Scale
An emotional-experiential perspective on creative symbolic-metaphorical processes
Beyond Boredom and Anxiety
Constructing an interactionist framework for playfulness research
Playfulness in Adulthood as a Personality Trait
Creativity
Accessing the Inaccessible
Homo ludens
The Propulsion Model of Creative Contributions Applied to the Arts and Letters
Enhancing team creativity with playful improvisation theater
Dispositional differences in cognitive motivation
Scientific creativity as constrained stochastic behavior
Play in Work
Ends, Means, and Galumphing
| Obras citantes distintas | 7 |
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| Citas por año | 7 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 7 |