Beyond the words: Exploring individual differences in the evaluation of poetic creativity

Chaudhuri, Soma; Pickering, Alan; Dooley, Maura and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2024. Beyond the words: Exploring individual differences in the evaluation of poetic creativity. PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203 [Article] (In Press)

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Abstract or Description

Poetry is arguably the most creative expression of language and can evoke diverse subjective experiences, such as emotions and aesthetic responses, subsequently influencing the subjective judgment of the creativity of poem. This study investigated how certain personality traits - specifically openness, intellect, awe-proneness, and epistemic curiosity – influence the relationship between these subjective experiences and the creativity judgment of 36 English language poems. One hundred and twenty-nine participants rated each poem across six dimensions: clarity, aesthetic appeal, felt valence, felt arousal, surprise, and overall creativity. Initially, we obtained a parsimonious model that suggested aesthetic appeal, felt valence, and surprise as key predictors of poetic creativity. Subsequently, using multilevel analysis, we investigated the interactions between the four personality traits and these three predictors. Among the personality traits, openness emerged as the primary moderator in predicting judgments of poetic creativity, followed by curiosity and awe-proneness. Among the predictors, aesthetic appeal was moderated by all four personality traits, while surprise was moderated by openness, awe-proneness, and curiosity. Valence, on the other hand, was moderated by openness only. These findings provide novel insights into the ways individual differences influence evaluations of poetic creativity.

Item Type:

Article

Keywords:

poetry, creativity, evaluation, personality traits, moderation

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Psychology
English and Comparative Literature

Dates:

DateEvent
7 July 2024Accepted

Item ID:

37418

Date Deposited:

12 Aug 2024 15:11

Last Modified:

12 Aug 2024 20:54

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37418

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