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Can salient reward increase creative performance without reducing intrinsic creative interest?

R Eisenberger1, S Armeli

  • 1Psychology Department, University of Delaware, Newark 19716-2577, USA. eisenber@strauss.udel.edu

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|March 1, 1997
PubMed
Summary

Monetary rewards for creative tasks can enhance children's generalized creativity and intrinsic interest. Offering rewards for novel performance boosts creativity without diminishing interest, especially with larger reward amounts.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Background:

  • Understanding factors influencing creativity in children is crucial for educational development.
  • Monetary rewards are often explored as motivators, but their impact on creativity is debated.
  • Previous research suggests potential negative effects of rewards on intrinsic motivation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of monetary reward on generalized creative performance in preadolescent children.
  • To examine how reward conditions influence intrinsic creative interest.
  • To determine if reward for novel performance impacts creativity and interest differently than reward for uncreative performance.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted with 416 preadolescent school children.

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  • Experiment 1: Assessed creative performance on a drawing task after a "unusual uses" task with varying reward conditions (large, small, no reward).
  • Experiment 2: Measured intrinsic creative interest by observing children's choice between original and copied drawings after reward conditions for novel or uncreative performance.

    • Main Results:

    • A large monetary reward for novel performance in one task significantly enhanced creative performance in a subsequent, different task.
    • Reward for novel performance increased intrinsic creative interest, indicated by a preference for original creative work.
    • Intrinsic creative interest was only reduced when rewards were given for uncreative performance.

    Conclusions:

    • The explicit requirement of novel performance for a salient monetary reward can enhance generalized creativity in children.
    • This enhancement in creativity does not necessarily lead to a loss of intrinsic creative interest.
    • Careful structuring of reward conditions is essential to leverage monetary incentives for boosting creativity.