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4 - Assessing Creativity and Affect in Everyday Environments

Experience-Sampling and Daily Diary Methods

from Part I - Methods in the Study of Creativity and Emotions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2023

By
Katherine N. Cotter
Edited by
Zorana Ivcevic ,
Jessica D. Hoffmann  and
James C. Kaufman
Zorana Ivcevic
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Jessica D. Hoffmann
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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Summary

Creativity can be seen in many facets of our lives, from experimenting with your dinner recipes or using ingenuity to resolve problems to inventing a new technology or working as a professional artist. Researchers are increasingly moving beyond investigating creativity in the lab to examine how and when creativity occurs in people’s everyday lives and environments. This chapter provides an overview of ecological momentary assessment techniques (i.e., daily dairy and experience sampling methods) commonly used in creativity research. To illustrate how ecological momentary assessment methods have featured in creativity research, I review several exemplars of research focused on creativity in daily life.

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experience samplingdaily diarieseveryday creativityemotions
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The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions , pp. 68 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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