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To test the hypothesis that an intrinsic motivational orientation fosters creativity while an extrinsic motivational orientation harms creative performance in writers.

February 1, 1985Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Motivation and creativity: Effects of motivational orientation on creative writers.

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To test the hypothesis that an intrinsic motivational orientation fosters creativity while an extrinsic motivational orientation harms creative performance in writers.
Recruited 72 young adults actively involved in creative writing for individual laboratory sessions.
Assessed participants across two brief poetry-writing tasks, introducing an intrinsic questionnaire, an extrinsic questionnaire, or a control condition prior to the second task.
Initial poetry creativity and prior writing experience demonstrated no baseline differences among the three experimental groups.
Poems produced under an extrinsic motivational orientation were significantly less creative than those composed in the intrinsic and control conditions.

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Laboratory experiment demonstrates that extrinsic motivation significantly impairs poetic creativity in creative writers, suggesting external incentives undermine artistic production.

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Teresa M. Amabile (1985) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7ebf35c3030ff03d183f0 https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.48.2.393

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Laboratory experiment demonstrates that extrinsic motivation significantly impairs poetic creativity in creative writers, suggesting external incentives undermine artistic production.

Motivation and creativity: Effects of motivational orientation on creative writers.

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