Resumen de Personality Processes and Individual Differences: "People underestimate the value of persistence for creative performance": Correction to Lucas and Nordgren (2015)
Reports an error in "People underestimate the value of persistence for creative performance" by Brian J. Lucas and Loran F. Nordgren (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2015[Aug], Vol 109[2], 232-243). In the article, there are misaligned headers and incorrect means and standard deviations for the first six columns in Table 2 due to a production error. The corrected table is present in the erratum. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2015-31619-002.) Across 7 studies, we investigated the prediction that people underestimate the value of persistence for creative performance. Across a range of creative tasks, people consistently underestimated how productive they would be while persisting (Studies 1–3). Study 3 found that the subjectively experienced difficulty, or disfluency, of creative thought accounted for persistence undervaluation. Alternative explanations based on idea quality (Studies 1–2B) and goal setting (Study 4) were considered and ruled out and domain knowledge was explored as a boundary condition (Study 5). In Study 6, the disfluency of creative thought reduced people’s willingness to invest in an opportunity to persist, resulting in lower financial performance. This research demonstrates that persistence is a critical determinant of creative performance and that people may undervalue and underutilize persistence in everyday creative problem solving. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
