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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2022340118
	Naming unrelated words predicts creativity
	Olson J.A.; Nahas J.; Chmoulevitch D.; Cropper S.J.; Webb M.E.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	118 期号:25
英文摘要	Several theories posit that creative people are able to generate more divergent ideas. If this is correct, simply naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance between them could serve as an objective measure of divergent thinking. To test this hypothesis, we asked 8,914 participants to name 10 words that are as different from each other as possible. A computational algorithm then estimated the average semantic distance between the words; related words (e.g., cat and dog) have shorter distances than unrelated ones (e.g., cat and thimble). We predicted that people producing greater semantic distances would also score higher on traditional creativity measures. In Study 1, we found moderate to strong correlations between semantic distance and two widely used creativity measures (the Alternative Uses Task and the Bridge-the-Associative-Gap Task). In Study 2, with participants from 98 countries, semantic distances varied only slightly by basic demographic variables. There was also a positive correlation between semantic distance and performance on a range of problems known to predict creativity. Overall, semantic distance correlated at least as strongly with established creativity measures as those measures did with each other. Naming unrelated words in what we call the Divergent Association Task can thus serve as a brief, reliable, and objective measure of divergent thinking. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Computational scoring; Creativity; Divergent thinking; Semantic distance
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adult; algorithm; article; cat; creativity; demography; dog; female; human; human experiment; major clinical study; male; nonhuman
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/238883
作者单位	Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States; Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1G1, Canada; Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Olson J.A.,Nahas J.,Chmoulevitch D.,et al. Naming unrelated words predicts creativity[J],2021,118(25).
APA	Olson J.A.,Nahas J.,Chmoulevitch D.,Cropper S.J.,&Webb M.E..(2021).Naming unrelated words predicts creativity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(25).
MLA	Olson J.A.,et al."Naming unrelated words predicts creativity".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.25(2021).