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The Relationship of Promotion Focus, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Categorical Accessibility in American and Hong Kong Chinese University Students
Author(s) -
IP GRACE WAIMAN,
CHEN JING,
CHIU CHIYUE
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/j.2162-6057.2006.tb01273.x
Subject(s) - creativity , categorical variable , promotion (chess) , closure (psychology) , psychology , cognition , focus (optics) , conceptual framework , regulatory focus theory , social psychology , sociology , political science , social science , computer science , physics , optics , machine learning , neuroscience , politics , law
Categorical accessibility is a cognitive factor that limits the extent of creative conceptual expansion. In the present study, we sought to establish the categorical accessibility norms in five conceptual domains among American and Hong Kong Chinese university students. In addition, we predicted that the tendency to access normatively inaccessible exemplars in a conceptual domain is positively related to the motivation to maximize the likelihood of attaining positive outcomes (promotion focus) and negatively related to the need for cognitive closure. We obtained the predicted relationships among both American and Hong Kong Chinese university students. These findings were discussed in terms of their implications for promoting creativity across cultures.