Motivated information processing, social tuning, and group creativity.

2010 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam N. Bechtoldt ◽  
Carsten K. W. De Dreu ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Hoon-Seok Choi
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Social Tuning ◽  
Motivated Information Processing

Information Processing, Motivation, and Group Creativity

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Myriam Bechtoldt ◽  
Hoon-Seok Choi
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation ◽  
Collaborative Problem Solving ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Motivated Information Processing ◽  
Processing Motivation ◽  
The Individual

According to an information processing perspective, group creativity results from the combination of individual resources into a (creative) group product. This involves information processing at the individual as well as the group level (by means of communication). This chapter first discusses how individual-level information processing is affected by group interaction in terms of both cognitive interference and cognitive stimulation. It then discusses (1) the evidence linking group-level information processing (i.e., communication, information sharing, collaborative problem solving) to group creativity and (2) the factors that stimulate or reduce group-level information processing. It is argued that many research findings can be explained by assuming that group creativity involves motivated information processing of members.

scholarly journals Membership change, idea generation, and group creativity: A motivated information processing perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843022199945
Author(s):  
Suqing Wu ◽  
Bernard A. Nijstad ◽  
Yingjie Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Membership Change ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Processing Theory ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Motivated Information Processing ◽  
Radical Ideas

Membership change has been found to stimulate collective idea generation but to not always benefit group creativity—the generation of final outcomes that are novel and useful. Based on motivated information processing theory, we propose that membership change challenges group members to generate more ideas, but that this only contributes to group creativity when members have high levels of prosocial motivation and are willing to process and integrate each other’s ideas. In a laboratory study of 56 student groups, we found that incremental, but not radical, idea generation mediated the positive effect of membership change on group creativity, and only when group members were prosocially motivated. The present study points to different roles of incremental versus radical ideas and underscores the importance of accounting for prosocial motivation in groups for reaping the benefits of membership change in relation to group creativity.

Motivated information processing and group creativity

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Bechtoldt ◽  
Carsten De Dreu ◽  
Bernard Nijstad
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Group Creativity ◽  
Motivated Information Processing
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