Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue (한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제)

Korean Psychological Association of Culture and Social Issues (한국문화및사회문제심리학회)
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The Implicit Attitude against Creativity and Global Perception Benefits

창의성에 대한 암묵적 태도와 전체지각의 관계

  • Hong Im Shin (Sogang University, BK 21 Project, Graduate School of Business)
  • 신홍임 (서강대학교 경영전문대학원 BK21사업단)
  • Received : 2012.09.06
  • Accepted : 2012.11.26
  • Published : 2012.11.30

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Abstract

The implicit association test (IAT) measures implicit attitudes of participants and is regarded as an effective method for expecting future behaviors. Based on the IAT, this study aimed to answer the question, whether implicit attitudes of an individual about creativity have any kinds of impact on global perception, which might be important for a creative process. In the experiment, participants were presented words, which were associated with one of four categories, while one attitude category (creativity /practicality) and one evaluative category (good/bad) were always paired together either on the left side or on the right side of the computer screen. After completing the IAT test, participants were led to fill out a questionnaire to assess explicit attitudes toward creativity and practicality. Then they conducted the navon task, in which they had to find one of two letters, 'F' or 'H', which were presented either as a local form or as a global form. Finally, the participants had to write down as many untypical functions of an object as possible. The results showed that not the scores of explicit attitude scores but the IAT scores correlated with the reaction time of global perception. The global perception was faster in the participants with the low IAT scores than the local perception. Compared to this, the global perception benefits disappeared in the participants with the high IAT scores. Additionally, more creative ideas about the functions of the object were listed in the group with the lower IAT scores. Implications of the role of implicit attitudes about creative processes are discussed.

암묵적 연합검사는 연구참가자의 내면적인 태도를 측정하고, 미래의 행동을 예측하는데 효과적인 방법으로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 암묵적 연합검사를 토대로 한 개인의 창의성에 대한 무의식적인 부정적 태도가 창의적인 과정에 유리하다고 알려져 있는 전체지각과 어떤 관계에 있는지를 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 실험에서는 대학생 참가자에게 창의성/실용성과 긍정/부정단어들을 각각 짝지어 제시한 후, 창의성-긍정단어에 대한 반응시간과 창의성-부정단어에 대한 반응시간의 차이를 통해 암묵적 태도를 측정했다. 그 이후 참가자들은 전체유형 혹은 부분유형으로 나타나는 글자에 대해 신속하게 반응하는 네이본 과제를 수행했다. 그 결과, 창의성에 대한 암묵적 편견이 적은 참가자집단에서 전체지각의 반응시간이 부분지각의 반응시간보다 더 빠르게 나타났으며, 전체지각의 이득이 나타났다. 반면 창의성에 대한 암묵적인 편견이 높은 참가자집단에서는 전체지각과 부분지각의 유의한 차이가 관찰되지 않았으며, 전체지각의 이득이 사라졌다. 이 결과는 한 개인이 갖고 있는 창의성에 대한 암묵적 편견은 자신의 창의적 과정과 부적 관계에 있음을 보여주며, 창의성의 예측에서 암묵적인 태도 측정의 중요성을 시사한다.

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