Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking

An anonymous reader writes "Despite how much people might say they like creative thinking, they don't, at least according to studies. 'We think of creative people in a heroic manner, and we celebrate them, but the thing we celebrate is the after-effect,' says Barry Staw, a researcher at the University of California–Berkeley business school who specializes in creativity. 'As much as we celebrate independence in Western cultures, there is an awful lot of pressure to conform,' he says."

Comments

The problem:

[Anonymous Coward]

Creative people just can't shut up and do what they're told.

Re:The problem:

[Anonymous Coward]

Granted, but the other problem exists...without creativity, you become a soul-less automaton. Your whole world is a static dying place...dead because no new life is growing in it.

So, basically you become like people who watch Fox News?

**ducks**

Re:The problem:

[stranger_to_himself]

Also...It sometimes help to remember that half of us have below average intelligence. It follows then that some of us are incapable of objective reasoning. Many of us who are capable of rational thought are just plain intellectually lazy. And many of us who are intellectually challenged put a lot of effort into trying to figure things out. It is a complicated issue.

That was just about the most intellectually lazy comment I have ever seen.

I was going to post a point by point rebuttal....but I couldn't be bothered.

As a creative thinker...

[Vitriol Angst]

... I can attest to this bias against me, likely the cause of mega jealousy!

Non-Creative; "What do you make of this report?"

Me; "Well I can make a hat, an airplane or a little swan..."

Re:Creativity often equates to "Different"

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> heard

or herd