Affect and creativity at work

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 367-403

  Amabile, Teresa M ^a   Barsade, Sigal G ^b   Mueller, Jennifer S ^c   Staw, Barry M ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 32844469666     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2005.50.3.367     Document Type: Article

References (139)

1. Abele-Brehm, A. 1992 "Positive and negative mood influences on creativity: Evidence for asymmetrical effects." Polish Psychological Bulletin, 23:203-221.
2. Amabile, T. M. 1983 The Social Psychology of Creativity. New York: Springer-Verlag.
3. 1988 "A model of creativity and innovation in organizations." In B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (eds.). Research in Organizational Behavior, 10: 123-167. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
4. 1996 Creativity in Context: Update to the Social Psychology of Creativity. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
5. Amabile, T. M., R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby, and M. Herron 1996 "Assessing the work environment for creativity." Academy of Management Journal, 39: 1154-1184.
6. Amabile, T. M., and J. S. Mueller 2006 "Assessing creativity and its antecedents: An exploration of the componential theory of creativity." In C. Ford (ed.). Handbook of Creativity. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum (in press).
7. Amabile, T. M., J. S. Mueller, and S. Archambault 2000 "Detailed event narrative analysis (DENA) coding scheme." Harvard Business School Working Paper #03-080.
8. Amabile, T. M., D. Whitney, J. Weinstock, L. Miller, and C. Fallang 1997 "What really happens in creative projects: Event sampling through electronic data collection." Harvard Business School Working Paper #98-036.
9. Andreason, N. C. 1987 "Creativity and mental illness: Prevalence rates in writers and their first-degree relatives." American Journal of Psychiatry, 144: 1288-1292.
10. Atienza, M., J. L. Cantero, and R. Stickgold 2004 "Posttraining sleep enhances automaticity in perceptual discrimination." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16: 53-64.
11. Barrett, L. F. 2004 "Feelings or words? Understanding the content in self-report ratings of experienced emotion." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87: 266-281.
12. Barsade, S. G. 2002 "The ripple effect: Emotional contagion and its influence on group behavior." Administrative Science Quarterly, 47: 644-675.
13. Barsade, S. G., A. P. Brief, and S. E. Spataro 2003 "The affective revolution in organizational behavior: The emergence of a paradigm." In J. Greenberg (ed.), Organizational Behavior: The State of the Science: 3-51. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
14. Barsade, S. G., A. J. Ward, J. D. F. Turner, and J. A. Sonnenfeld 2000 "To your heart's content: The influence of affective diversity in top management teams." Administrative Science Quarterly, 45: 802-836.
15. Bartel, C. A., and R. Saavedra 2001 "The collective construction of work group moods." Administrative Science Quarterly, 45: 197-231.
16. Blaney, P. H. 1986 "Affect and memory: A review." Psychological Bulletin, 99: 229-246.
17. Bower, G. 1981 "Mood and memory." American Psychologist, 36: 129-148.
18. Brief, A. P. 2001 "Organizational behavior and the study of affect: Keep your eyes on the organization." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86: 131-139.
19. Brief, A. P., and H. M. Weiss 2002 "Organizational behavior: Affect in the workplace." Annual Review of Psychology, 53: 279-307.
20. Burt, R. S. 2004 "Structural holes and good ideas." American Journal of Sociology, 110: 349-399.
21. Cacioppo, J. T., and G. G. Berntson 1999 "The affect system: Architecture and operating characteristics." Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8: 133-137.
22. Cahill, L., M. Uncapher, L. Kilpatrick, M. T. Alkire, and J. Turner 2004 "Sex-related hemispheric lateralization of amygdala function in emotionally influenced memory: An MRI investigation." Learning and Memory, 11: 261-266.
23. Campbell, D. T. 1960 "Blind variation and selective retention in creative thought as in other knowledge processes." Psychological Review, 67: 380-400.
24. 1969 "Prospective: Artifact and control." In R. Rosenthal and R. L. Rosnow (eds.), Artifact in Behavioral Research: 351-382. New York: Academic Press.
25. Canli, T., Z. Zhao, J. Brewer, J. Gabrieli, and L. Cahill 2000 "Event-related activation in the human amygdala associates with later memory for individual emotional response." Journal of Neuroscience, 20: RC99.
26. Cardy, R. L., and G. H. Dobbins 1986 "Affect and appraisal accuracy: Liking as an integral dimension in evaluating performance." Journal of Applied Psychology, 71: 672-678.
27. Carnevale, P. J., and A. M. Isen 1986 "The influence of positive affect and visual access on the discovery of integrative solutions in bilateral negotiation." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 37: 1-13.
28. Clore, G.L., N. Schwarz, and M. Conway 1994 "Cognitive causes and consequences of emotion." In R. S. Wyer and T. K. Srull (eds.), Handbook of Social Cognition: 323-417. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
29. Csikszentmihalyi, M. 1975 Beyond Boredom and Anxiety. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
30. 1996 Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York: Harper-Collins.
31. Csikszentmihalyi, M., and R. W. Larson 1987 "Validity and reliability of the experience-sampling method." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175: 526-536.
32. Deci, E. L., and R. M. Ryan 1985 Intrinsic Motivation and Self-determination in Human Behavior. New York: Plenum Press.
33. Emmons, R. A. 1987 "Narcissism: Theory and measurement." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52: 11-17.
34. Estrada, C.A., A. Isen, and M. J. Young 1994 "Positive affect improves creative problem solving and influences reported source of practice satisfaction in physicians." Motivation and Emotion, 18: 285-299.
35. Feist, G. J. 1994 "Affective consequences of insight in art and science students." Cognition and Emotion, 8: 489-502.
36. 1999 "Affect in artistic and scientific creativity." In S. W. Russ (ed.), Affect, Creative Experience, and Psychological Adjustment: 93-109. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel.
37. Feist, G. J. 1998 "A meta-analysis of personality in scientific and artistic creativity." Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2: 290-309.
38. Fiedler, K., and J. P. Forgas 1988 Affect, Cognition, and Social Behavior: New Evidence and Integrative Attempts. Lewiston, NY: C. J. Hogrefe.
39. Fineman, S. 1993 "Organizations as emotional arenas." In S. Fineman (ed.), Emotion in Organizations: 9-35. London: Sage.
40. Fong, C. 2003 "The effects of emotional ambivalence on creativity." Unpublished dissertation, Stanford University.
41. Ford, C. M. 1996 "A theory of individual creative action in multiple social domains." Academy of Management Review, 21: 1112-1142.
42. Forgas, J. P. 2001 "Introduction: Affect and social cognition." In J. P. Forgas (ed.), Handbook of Affect and Social Cognition: 1-24. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
43. Frederickson, B. L. 1998 "What good are positive emotions?" Review of General Psychology, 2: 300-319.
44. 2001 "The role of positive emotions in positive psychology." American Psychologist, 56: 218-226.
45. Frederickson, B. L., and T. Joiner 2002 "Positive emotions trigger upward spirals toward emotional well-being." Psychological Science, 13: 172-175.
46. Fridja, N. H. 1986 The Emotions. New York: Cambridge University Press.
47. 1993 "Moods, emotion episodes and emotions." In M. Lewis and J. M. Haviland (eds.), Handbook of Emotions: 381-403. New York: Guilford Press.
48. Fridja, N., and B. Mesquita 1994 "The social roles and functions of emotions." In S. Kitayama and H. R. Markus (eds.), Emotion and Culture: Empirical Studies of Mutual Influence: 51-87. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
49. Gaab, N., M. Paetzold, M. Becker, M. P. Walker, and G. Schlaug 2004 "The influence of sleep on auditory learning: A behavioral study." Neuroreport, 15: 731-734.
50. George, J. M. 1990 "Personality, affect, and behavior in groups." Journal of Applied Psychology, 75: 107-116.
51. 1991 "State or trait: Effects of positive mood on prosocial behaviors at work." Journal of Applied Psychology, 76: 229-307.
52. George, J. M., and J. Zhou 2002 "Understanding when bad moods foster creativity and good ones don't: The role of context and clarity of feelings." Journal of Applied Psychology, 87: 687-697.
53. Grawitch, M. J., D. C. Munz, and T. J. Kramer 2003 "Effects of member mood states on creative performance in temporary workgroups." Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice, 7: 41-54.
54. Gruber, H.E. 1995 "Insight and affect in the history of science." In R. J. Sternber and J. E. Davidson (eds.), The Nature of Insight: 397-431. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
55. Gulliksen, H. 1987 Theory of Mental Tests. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
56. Hatfield, E., J. T. Cacioppo, and R. L. Rapson 1994 Emotional Contagion. Paris: Cambridge University Press.
57. Hirt, E. R., G. M. Levine, H. E. McDonald, R. J. Melton, and L. L. Martin 1997 "The role of mood in quantitative and qualitative aspects of performance: Single or multiple mechanisms?" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33: 602-629.
58. Hirt, E. R., R. J. Melton, H. E. McDonald, and J. M. Harackiewicz 1996 "Processing goals, task interest, and the mood-performance relationship: A mediational analysis." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71: 245-261.
59. Isen, A. 1999a"On the relationship between affect and creative problem solving." In S. W. Russ (ed.), Affect, Creative Experience and Psychological Adjustment: 3-18. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel.
60. 1999b "Positive affect." In T. Dagleish and M. Power (eds.), Handbook of Cognition and Emotion: 521-539. New York: Wiley.
61. Isen, A., P. Niedenthal, and N. Cantor 1992 "The influence of positive affect on social categorization." Motivation and Emotion, 16: 65-78.
62. Isen, A. M., and K. A. Daubman 1984 "The influence of affect on categorization." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47: 1206-1217.
63. Isen, A. M., K. A. Daubman, and G. P. Nowicki 1987 "Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52: 1122-1131.
64. Isen, A. M., M. S. Johnson, E. Mertz, and G. F. Robinson 1985 "The influence of positive affect on the unusualness of word associations." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48: 1413-1426.
65. James, K., M. Brodersen, and J. Eisenberg 2004 "Workplace affect and workplace creativity: A review and preliminary model." Human Performance, 17: 169-194.
66. Jamison, K. R. 1989 "Mood disorders and patterns of creativity in British writers and artists." Psychiatry, 52: 125-134.
67. 1993 Touched with Fire: Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. New York: Free Press.
68. 1995 "Manic-depressive illness and creativity." Scientific American, 272: 62.
69. Jausovec, N. 1989 "Affect in analogical transfer." Creativity Research Journal, 2: 255-266.
70. Judge, T. A., and R. llies 2004 "Affect and job satisfaction: A study of their relationship at work and at home." Journal of Applied Psychology, 89: 661-673.
71. Kahneman, D., A. B. Krueger, D. A. Schkade, N. Schwarz, and A. A. Stone 2004 "A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The day reconstruction method." Science Magazine, 306: 1776-1780.
72. Karni, A., D. Tanne, B. S. Rubenstein, J. J. Ashkanasy, and D. Sagi 1994 "Dependence on REM sleep of overnight improvement of a perceptual skill." Science, 265: 679-682.
73. Kaufmann, G. 2003 "Expanding the mood-creativity equation." Creativity Research Journal, 15: 131-135.
74. Kaufmann, G., and S. K. Vosburg 1997 "Paradoxical effects of mood on creative problem solving." Cognition and Emotion, 11: 151-170.
75. Kelly, J. R., and S. G. Barsade 2001 "Mood and emotions in small groups and work teams." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86:99-130.
76. Langley, P., and R. Jones 1988 "A computational model of scientific insight." In R. J. Sternberg (ed.), The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives: 171-201. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
77. Larsen, R. J., and E. Diener 1992 "Promises and problems with the circumplex model of emotion." In M. S. Clark (ed.), Emotion: Review of Personality and Social Psychology: 25-59. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
78. Larsen, R. J., E. Diener, and R. A. Emmons 1986 "Affective intensity and reactions to daily life events." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41: 803-814.
79. Lazarus, R. S. 1991 Emotion and Adaptation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
80. Lazarus, R. S., and Y. Cohen-Charash 2001 "Discrete emotions in organizational life." In R. Payne and C. L. Cooper (eds.), Emotions in Organizations: 48-81. Chichester, UK: Wiley.
81. Ludwig, A. M. 1992 "Creative achievement and psychopathology: Comparison among professions." American Journal of Psychotherapy, 46: 330-356.
82. Madjar, N., G. R. Oldham, and M. G. Pratt 2002 "There's no place like home? The contributions of work and nonwork creativity support to employees' creative performance." Academy of Management Journal, 45: 757-767.
83. Maquet, P., S. Laureys, P. Peigneux, S. Fuchs, C. Petiau, C. Phillips, J. Aerts, G. Del Fiore, C. Dagueldre, T. Meulemans, F. Luxen, C. Der Linden, M. Smith, and A. Cleeremans 2000 "Experience-dependent changes in cerebral activation during human REM sleep." Nature Neuroscience, 3: 831-836.
84. Maquet, P., and P. Ruby 2004 "Insight and the sleep committee." Nature, 427: 304-305.
85. Martin, L. L., D. W. Ward, J. W. Achee, and R. S. Wyer 1993 "Mood as input: People have to interpret the motivational implications of their moods." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64: 317-326.
86. Martindale, C. 1999 "Biological basis of creativity." In R. J. Sternberg (ed.), Handbook of Creativity: 137-152. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
87. Mazzarello, P. 2000 "What dreams may come?" Nature, 408: 523.
88. McCrae, R. R. 1987 "Creativity, divergent thinking, and openness to experience." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52: 1258-1265.
89. Mikulincer, M., and E. Sheffi 2000 "Adult attachment style and cognitive reactions to positive affect: A test of mental categorization and creative problem solving." Motivation and Emotion, 24: 149-174.
90. Murphy, S. T. 2001 "Feeling without thinking: Affective primacy and the nonconscious processing of emotion." In J. A. Bargh and K. K. Apsley (eds.), Unraveling the Complexities of Social Life: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert B. Zajonc: 39-53. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
91. Murray, N., H. Sujan, E. R. Hirt, and M. Sujan 1990 "The influence of mood on categorization: A cognitive flexibility interpretation." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59: 411-425.
92. Nisbett, R. E., and T. Wilson 1977 "Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes." Psychological Review, 84: 231-259.
93. Oatley, D., and J. M. Jenkins 1996 Understanding Emotions. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
94. Oldham, G. R., and A. Cummings 1996 "Employee creativity: Personal and contextual factors at work." Academy of Management Journal, 39: 607-634.
95. Poincare, H. 1921 The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, the Value of Science, and Science and Method. New York: Science Press.
96. Post, F. 1996 "Verbal creativity, depression and alcoholism: An investigation of one hundred American and British writers." British Journal of Psychiatry, 168: 545-555.
97. Prentky, R. 1989 "Creativity and psychopathology: Gambling at the seat of madness." In J. A. Glover et al. (eds.), Handbook of Creativity: Perspectives on Individual Differences: 243-269. New York: Plenum Press.
98. Puccio, G. H., and M. C. Murdock 1999 Creativity Assessment: Readings and Resources. Buffalo, NY: Creative Education Foundation.
99. Richards, R. 1994 "Creativity and bipolar mood swings: Why the association?" In M. P. Shaw and M. A. Runco (eds.), Creativity and Affect: 127-146. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
100. Rothenberg, A. 1990 Creativity and Madness: New Findings and Old Stereotypes. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
101. Russell, J. A. 1980 "A circumplex model of affect." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39: 1161-1178.
102. Russell, J. A., and L. F. Barrett 1999 "Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: Dissecting the elephant." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76: 805-819.
103. Sandelands, L. E. 1988 "The concept of work feeling." Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 18: 437-457.
104. Shaver, P., J. Schwartz, D. Kirson, and C. O'Connor 1987 "Emotion knowledge: Further exploration of a prototype approach." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52: 1061-1086.
105. Shaw, E. D., J. Mann, P. E. Stokes, and A. Manevitz 1986 "Effect of lithium carbonate on associative productivity and idiosyncrasy in bipolar outpatients." American Journal of Psychiatry, 143: 1166-1169.
106. Shaw, M. P. 1999 "On the role of affect in scientific discovery." In S. W. Russ (ed.). Affect, Creative Experience, and Psychological Adjustment: 147-164. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel.
107. Simonton, D. K. 1988 Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
108. 1999 Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity. New York: Oxford University Press.
109. 2003 "Scientific creativity as constrained stochastic behavior: The integration of product, person, and process perspectives." Psychological Bulletin, 129: 475-494.
110. Singer, J. D. 1998 "Using SAS PROC MIXED to fit multilevel models, hierarchical models, and individual growth models." Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 23: 323-355.
111. Singleton, R. A., and B. C. Straits 1999 Approaches to Social Research, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
112. Staw, B. M., and S. G. Barsade 1993 "Affect and managerial performance: A test of the sad-der-but-wiser vs. happier-and-smarter hypotheses." Administrative Science Quarterly, 38: 304-331.
113. Staw, B. M., L. E. Sandelands, and J. E. Dutton 1981 "Threat- rigidity effects in organizational behavior: A multilevel analysis." Administrative Science Quarterly, 26: 501-524.
114. Staw, B. M., R. I. Sutton, and L. H. Pelled 1994 "Employee positive emotion and favorable outcomes at the workplace." Organization Science, 5: 51-71.
115. Sternberg, R. J. 1988aThe Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
116. 1988b"A three-facet model of creativity." In R. J. Sternberg (ed.), The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives: 125-147. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
117. Stickgold, R., L. James, and A. J. Hobson 2000 "Visual discrimination learning requires sleep after training." Nature Neuroscience, 3: 1237-1238.
118. Stickgold, R., L. Scott, C. Rittenhouse, and J. Hobson 1999 "Sleep-induced changes in associative memory." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11: 182-193.
119. Stickgold, R., and M. Walker 2004 "To sleep, perchance to gain creative insight?" Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8: 191-192.
120. Stone, A. A., and J. M. Neale 1982 "Development of a methodology for assessing daily experiences." In A. Baum and J. Singer (eds.), Advances in Environmental Psychology, vol. 4: Environment and Health: 49-83. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
121. Talarico, J. M., K. S. LaBar, and D. C. Rubin 2004 "Emotional intensity predicts autobiographical memory experience." Memory and Cognition, 32: 1118-1132.
122. Toplyn, G., and W. Maguire 1991 "The differential effect of noise on creative task performance." Creativity Research Journal, 4: 337-347.
123. Totterdell, P. 2000 "Catching moods and hitting runs: Mood linkage and subjective performance in professional sport teams." Journal of Applied Psychology, 85: 848-859.
124. Vernon, P. E. 1970 Creativity. Middlesex, UK: Penguin Books.
125. Vosburg, S. K. 1998 "The effects of positive and negative mood on divergent thinking performance." Creativity Research Journal, 11: 165-172.
126. Waddell, C. 1998 "Creativity and mental illness: Is there a link?" Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 43: 166-172.
127. Wagner, U., S. Gais, H. Haider, R. Verleger, and J. Born 2004 "Sleep inspires insight." Nature, 427: 352-355.
128. Walker, M. P., T. Brakefield, J. Seidman, A. Morgan, J. Hobson, and R. Stickgold 2003 "Sleep and the time course of motor skill learning." Learning and Memory, 10: 275-284.
129. Wallas, G. 1926 The Art of Thought. New York: Harcourt, Brace.
130. Watson, D. 2000 Mood and Temperament. New York: Guilford Press.
131. Watson, D., L. A. Clark, and A. Tellegen 1988 "Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 54: 1063-1070.
132. Watson, D., and L. M. Walker 1996 "The long term stability and predictive validity of trait measures of affect." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70: 567-577.
133. Weisberg, R. W. 1988 "Problem solving and creativity." In R. J. Sternberg (ed.), The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives: 148-176. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
134. Weiss, H. M., and R. Cropanzano 1996 "Affective events theory: A theoretical discussion of the structure, causes and consequences of affective experiences at work." In B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, 18: 1-74. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
135. Wilson, T. D., D. B. Centerbar, D. A. Kramer, and D. T. Gilbert 2005 "The pleasures of uncertainty: Prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipate." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88: 5-21.
136. Woodman, R. W., J. W. Sawyer, and R. W. Griffin 1993 "Toward a theory of organizational creativity." Academy of Management Review, 18: 293-321.
137. Wright, T. A., and B. M. Staw 1999 "Affect and favorable work outcomes: Two longitudinal tests of the happy-productive worker thesis." Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20: 1-23.
138. Yerkes, R. M., and J. D. Dodson 1908 "The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit-formation." Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, 18: 459-482.
139. Zajonc, R. G. 1980 "Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences." American Psychologist, 35: 151-175.