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American and Chinese Similarities and Differences in Defining and Valuing Creative Products
Author(s) -
Lan Lan,
Kaufman James C.
Publication year - 2012
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/jocb.19
Subject(s) - creativity , novelty , context (archaeology) , divergence (linguistics) , value (mathematics) , psychology , creativity technique , epistemology , social psychology , sociology , aesthetics , history , linguistics , computer science , art , philosophy , archaeology , machine learning
This review of the literature explores how Americans and Chinese view creativity and what they expect from creative products. American and Chinese explicit beliefs about creativity (i.e., expert opinions) share many similarities. Implicit beliefs, however, show more divergence: Americans tend to value novelty and more “groundbreaking” types of creativity, whereas Chinese tend to appreciate creativity within constraints, such as reworking a traditional concept. The context of how people respond to creativity obviously varies by culture, although there are also some communal and universal creative ideals.