The effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity
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- Baogui Xin
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effects of risk-taking, exploitation, and exploration on creativity by taking a model-based computational approach to both divergent and convergent thinking as primary ingredients of creativity. We adopted a reinforcement learning framework of Q learning to provide a simple, rigorous account of behavior in the decision-making process and examined the determinants of divergent and convergent thinking. Our findings revealed that risk-taking has positive effects on divergent thinking, but not related to convergent thinking. In particular, divergent thinkers with a high learning capacity were more likely to engage in risk-taking when facing losses than when facing gains. This risk-taking behavior not only contributes to the rapid achievement of learning convergence, but is also associated with high performance in divergent thinking tasks. Conversely, both exploitation and exploration had no significant effects on creativity once these risk attitudes were considered. Moreover, while convergent thinking relied on personality characteristics, it was not associated with risk-taking, exploitation, or exploration.
Journal
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- PLoS ONE
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PLoS ONE 15 (7), e0235698-e0235698, 2020-07-30
Public Library of Science
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1050575520345610752
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- NII Article ID
- 120006879535
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- ISSN
- 19326203
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- HANDLE
- 20.500.14094/90007386
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Article Type
- journal article
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- Data Source
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- IRDB
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- CiNii Articles
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