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SUBMITTER: Dumas D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4749277 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Because of its fundamental relevance to scientific innovation, artistic expression, and human ingenuity, creativity has long been the subject of systematic psychological investigation. Concomitantly, the far-reaching effects of stereotypes on various cognitive and social processes have been widely researched. Bridging these two literatures, we show in a series of two studies that stereotypes related to creativity can both enhance and diminish individuals' performance on a divergent thinking task ...[more]