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  • Psychology
  • Creativity Research
  • Expertise Studies

Background:

  • The Consensual Assessment Technique assumes high domain ability equates to excellent quality ratings.
  • Prior research explored expert-novice differences but not the specific drivers of quality assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether experts' quality ratings are driven by identifying high-quality, low-quality, or both types of creative work.
  • To determine the specific aspects of quality assessment that correlate with individual creativity measures.

Main Methods:

  • 142 participants rated creative captions pre-identified as high or low quality.
  • Individual difference measures and external creativity assessments were administered.
  • Hierarchical regression analyses were used to analyze rating patterns.

Main Results:

  • Higher creativity scores correlated with lower ratings of low-quality captions.
  • No significant correlation was found between creativity scores and ratings of high-quality captions.
  • Quality assessment appears more influenced by identifying poor examples than superior ones.

Conclusions:

  • Expertise in creativity may be more strongly associated with the ability to discern low-quality work.
  • These findings challenge the assumption that high ability uniformly enhances the perception of both high and low quality.
  • Quality perception in creative domains might be asymmetrical, focusing more on negative exemplars.