TY  - CHAP
A1  - Haase, Jennifer
T1  - How games spoil creativity
BT  - a creative mindset priming study
T2  - International conference of ISPIM / International Society for Professional Innovation Management : papers / Graduate School of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Eindhoven University of Technology
N2  - The demand for a creative workforce is every growing and effective measures to improve individual creativity are searched for. This study analyzes the possibility to use games as a prime for a creative mindset. Two short entertainment games, plus a no-game-comparison condition were set up in three versions of an online-study, along with two creativity tasks and scales to assess the individual creative mindset (fixed-vs-growth, creative self-efficacy and affect). Results indicate priming effects of the games, but in the opposite intended direction: gaming diminished the creative test performances. Those playing the games reported more ideas in the open-ended creative problem task, but those answers were of less quality and they solved less closed-problem items compared to those not playing. An impact of further mindset differences could be ruled out.
KW  - Creativity
KW  - mindset
KW  - priming
KW  - gaming
KW  - improvement
KW  - enhancement
Y1  - 2020
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - International Society for Professional Innovation Management
CY  - Manchester
ER  -