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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Understanding group dynamics is crucial for optimizing collaborative problem-solving.
  • Gender composition is a potential factor influencing group creativity and interaction.
  • Interpersonal neural synchrony may underlie effective group cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of gender composition on group creative processes.
  • To explore differences in cooperative behavior and neural synchrony across gender dyads.
  • To identify potential neural mechanisms driving gender-related differences in creativity.

Main Methods:

  • Participants formed same-sex and mixed-sex dyads (F-F, M-M, F-M).
  • Dyads completed a creative task (Alternative Use Task) and a non-creative task.
  • Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)-based hyperscanning measured interpersonal brain synchronization (IBS).

Main Results:

  • No significant differences in overall creative performance were found between gender dyads.
  • Female-female dyads demonstrated higher cooperative behavior and collective flexibility.
  • Female-female dyads exhibited increased IBS in the right posterior parietal cortex during the creative task, correlating with performance.

Conclusions:

  • Gender composition does not significantly alter creative output but influences group process dynamics.
  • Female dyads show enhanced collaboration and neural synchrony, suggesting a greater tendency to consider others' perspectives.
  • Increased interpersonal brain synchronization in the right posterior parietal cortex may underpin these observed gender differences in collaborative creativity.