TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cromwell, Johnathan R.
A1  - Haase, Jennifer
A1  - Vladova, Gergana
T1  - The creative thinking profile
BT  - predicting intrinsic motivation based on preferences for different creative thinking styles
JF  - Personality and individual differences
N2  - Intrinsic motivation is widely considered essential to creativity because it facilitates more divergent thinking during problem solving. However, we argue that intrinsic motivation has been theorized too heavily as a unitary construct, overlooking various internal factors of a task that can shape the baseline level of intrinsic motivation people have for working on the task. Drawing on theories of cognitive styles, we develop a new scale that measures individual preferences for three different creative thinking styles that we call divergent thinking, bricoleurgent thinking, and emergent thinking. Through a multi-study approach consisting of exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and convergent validity, we provide psychometric evidence showing that people can have distinct preferences for each cognitive process when generating ideas. Furthermore, when validating this scale through an experiment, we find that each style becomes more dominant in predicting overall enjoyment, engagement, and creativity based on different underlying structures of a task. Therefore, this paper makes both theoretical and empirical contributions to literature by unpacking intrinsic motivation, showing how the alignment between different creative thinking styles and task can be essential to predicting intrinsic motivation, thus reversing the direction of causality between the motivational and cognitive components of creativity typically assumed in literature.
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112205
SN  - 0191-8869
SN  - 1873-3549
VL  - 208
PB  - Elsevier Science
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cromwell, Jennifer
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - From Pyramids to Obscure Gods
BT  - The Creation of an Egyptian World in Persona 5
JF  - thersites 14
N2  - Within Persona 5’s modern Tokyo setting, imagined worlds are created that represent the cognitive processes of various characters. These ‘palaces’ allow the player to explore locations far removed from the game’s real-world, contemporary backdrop. One episode creates an ancient Egyptian world. This article examines how this world has been produced and the different transmedial tropes and other influences that its developers have drawn upon. Many references are recognisable to a broad audience (pyramids, gods, hieroglyphs), while others reflect Japanese pop-cultural trends (in various manga and anime), including the mention of an obscure Egyptian god, Medjed. The intentionally fictitious nature of these ‘palaces’ means that the Egypt that appears in this game is not bound by the need to replicate an ‘accurate’ landscape. Instead, the developers were free to design a gamescape that combines multiple and diverse receptions of ancient Egypt.
KW  - Egypt
KW  - videogames
KW  - Persona 5
KW  - pyramids
KW  - gods
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14.199
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 14
SP  - 1
EP  - 40
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cromwell, Jennifer
A1  - Brück, Alexander
A1  - Unceta Gómez, Luis
A1  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
A1  - Freitag, Florian
A1  - Hanisch, Xenia
A1  - Dix, Sophie
A1  - Klohr, Silvia
A1  - Brilke, Clara
A1  - Klooster, Jacqueline
A1  - Fischer, Jens
A1  - Loconte, Riccardo
A1  - Weiß, Adrian
A1  - Vitello, Eugenia
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - Spring Issue
T2  - thersites
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 14
ER  -