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  • Psychology of creativity
  • Artificial intelligence

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  • Automated assessments of verbal creativity are advancing through computational scoring and semantic distance.
  • Previous research focused on semantic diversity as a predictor of creative text.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To extend computational linguistic approaches for characterizing creative text features.
  • To investigate the predictive power of perceptual details and semantic diversity on creativity.
  • To explore generative language models (like GPT-3 and GPT-4) for mimicking human creativity and supplementing data collection.

Main Methods:

  • Collected 600 short stories from human participants and GPT-3.
  • Assessed creative quality of randomized stories.
  • Replicated findings with 120 stories generated by GPT-4.
  • Analyzed stories for semantic diversity and presence of perceptual details.

Main Results:

  • Perceptual details, alongside semantic diversity, strongly predict creativity.
  • No significant difference in creativity ratings between human and AI-generated stories.
  • Positive correlations observed between human and AI assessments of creativity.

Conclusions:

  • Perceptual details are crucial for creative writing, enhancing reader transportation.
  • Generative language models demonstrate human-like creative writing capabilities.
  • Computational linguistic methods offer robust tools for creativity assessment.