Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220221241238321" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220221241238321</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220221241238321" target="_blank" >10.1177/00220221241238321</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
Original language description
Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, thegeneralizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by bothenvironmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also affect creativity and thus its potential effects should be controlled for. The results of multilevelanalyses showed that, as expected, conservatism was a significant predictor of lower creativity, adjusting for economic status, age, sex, education level, subjective susceptibility todisease, and country-level parasite stress. Additionally, most of the variability in creativity was due to individual rather than country-level variance. Our study provides evidence for aweak but significant negative link between conservatism and creativity on the individual level (β = -0.08, p < .001) and no such effect when country-level conservatism was considered. Wepresent our hypotheses considering previous findings on the behavioral immune system in humans.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN
0022-0221
e-ISSN
1552-5422
Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
368-385
UT code for WoS article
001197926500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85189607827