Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries

Agata Groyecka-Bernard; Piotr Sorokowski; Maciej Karwowski; S. Craig Roberts; Toivo Aavik; Grace Akello; Charlotte Alm; Naumana Amjad; Kelly Asao; Chiemezie S. Atama; Derya Atamtürk Duyar; Richard Ayebare; Carlota Batres; Aicha Bensafia; Anna Bertoni; Boris Bizumic; Mahmoud Boussena; David M. Buss; Marina Butovskaya; Seda Can; Antonin Carrier; Hakan Cetinkaya; Daniel Conroy-Beam; Marco Antonio Correa Varella; Ilona Croy; Rosa María Cueto; Marta Czerwonka; Marcin Czub; Silvia Donato; Daria Dronova; Seda Dural; Izzet Duyar; Berna Ertugrul; Agustín Espinosa; Carla Sofia Esteves; Tomasz Frackowiak; Aleksandra Gajda; Marta Galewska-Kustra; Jorge Contreras Graduño; Farida Guemaz; Ivana Hromatko; Chin-Ming Hui; Iskra Herak; Raffaella Iafrate; Jas Laile Jaafar; Dorota M. Jankowska; Feng Jiang; Konstantinos Kafetsios; Tina Kavčič; Nicolas O. Kervyn; Nils C. Köbis; Izabela Lebuda; Georgina R. Lennard; Ernesto León; Torun Lindholm; Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba; Zoi Manesi; Sarah L. McKerchar; Girishwar Misra; Conal Monaghan; Emanuel C. Mora; Alba Moya-Garófano; Bojan Musil; Jean Carlos Natividade; George Nizharadze; Elisabeth Oberzaucher; Anna Oleszkiewicz; Mohd Sofian Omar Fauzee; Ike E. Onyishi; Baris Özener; Farid Pazhoohi; Mariia Perun; Annette Pisanski; Katarzyna Pisanski; Edna Lúcia Tinoco Ponciano; Camelia Popa; Pavol Prokop; Muhammad Rizwan; Svjetlana Salkičević; Susanne Schmehl; Oksana Senyk; Shivantika Sharad; Franco Simonetti; Meri Tadinac; Karina Ugalde González; Olha Uhryn; Christin-Melanie Vauclair; Diego Vega; Ewa Weremczuk-Marczyńska; Dwi Ajeng Widarini; Gyesook Yoo; Maja Zupančič; Afifa Anjum; Anam Shahid; Agnieszka Sorokowska

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Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries

Agata Groyecka-Bernard, Piotr Sorokowski, Maciej Karwowski, S. Craig Roberts, Toivo Aavik, Grace Akello, Charlotte Alm, Naumana Amjad, Kelly Asao, Chiemezie S. Atama, Derya Atamtürk Duyar, Richard Ayebare, Carlota Batres, Aicha Bensafia, Anna Bertoni, Boris Bizumic, Mahmoud Boussena, David M. Buss, Marina Butovskaya, Seda CanAntonin Carrier, Hakan Cetinkaya, Daniel Conroy-Beam, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Ilona Croy, Rosa María Cueto, Marta Czerwonka, Marcin Czub, Silvia Donato, Daria Dronova, Seda Dural, Izzet Duyar, Berna Ertugrul, Agustín Espinosa, Carla Sofia Esteves, Tomasz Frackowiak, Aleksandra Gajda, Marta Galewska-Kustra, Jorge Contreras Graduño, Farida Guemaz, Ivana Hromatko, Chin-Ming Hui, Iskra Herak, Raffaella Iafrate, Jas Laile Jaafar, Dorota M. Jankowska, Feng Jiang, Konstantinos Kafetsios, Tina Kavčič, Nicolas O. Kervyn, Nils C. Köbis, Izabela Lebuda, Georgina R. Lennard, Ernesto León, Torun Lindholm, Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba, Zoi Manesi, Sarah L. McKerchar, Girishwar Misra, Conal Monaghan, Emanuel C. Mora, Alba Moya-Garófano, Bojan Musil, Jean Carlos Natividade, George Nizharadze, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Anna Oleszkiewicz, Mohd Sofian Omar Fauzee, Ike E. Onyishi, Baris Özener, Farid Pazhoohi, Mariia Perun, Annette Pisanski, Katarzyna Pisanski, Edna Lúcia Tinoco Ponciano, Camelia Popa, Pavol Prokop, Muhammad Rizwan, Svjetlana Salkičević, Susanne Schmehl, Oksana Senyk, Shivantika Sharad, Franco Simonetti, Meri Tadinac, Karina Ugalde González, Olha Uhryn, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Diego Vega, Ewa Weremczuk-Marczyńska, Dwi Ajeng Widarini, Gyesook Yoo, Maja Zupančič, Afifa Anjum, Anam Shahid, Agnieszka Sorokowska

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Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also affect creativity and thus, its potential effects should be controlled for. The results of multilevel analyses showed that, as expected, conservatism was a significant predictor of lower creativity, adjusting for economic status, age, sex, education level, subjective susceptibility to disease, and country-level parasite stress. In addition, most of the variability in creativity was due to individual rather than country-level variance. Our study provides evidence for a weak but significant negative link between conservatism and creativity at the individual level (β = −0.08, p <.001) and no such effect when country-level conservatism was considered. We present our hypotheses considering previous findings on the behavioral immune system in humans.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	368-385
Journal	Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Volume	55
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221241238321
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2024
Externally published	Yes

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The study was funded as part the \u201CIncubator: Being Human\u201D project at the University of Wroclaw within the \u201CExcellence Initiative\u2014Research University\u201D program. M.Bu. worked in accordance with the research plan of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS. M.A.C.V. was supported by the CAPES (Coordena\u00E7\u00E3o de Aperfei\u00E7oamento de Pessoal de N\u00EDvel Superior), no. PNPD 33002010037P0\u2014MEC/CAPES. Gulu University was supported by Global Challenges Research Fund, UK: Gender Justice Security.

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University of Wroclaw
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Medical Engineering Centre King’s College London
Gender Justice Security

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Groyecka-Bernard, A., Sorokowski, P., Karwowski, M., Roberts, S. C., Aavik, T., Akello, G., Alm, C., Amjad, N., Asao, K., Atama, C. S., Atamtürk Duyar, D., Ayebare, R., Batres, C., Bensafia, A., Bertoni, A., Bizumic, B., Boussena, M., Buss, D. M., Butovskaya, M., ... Sorokowska, A. (2024). Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 55(4), 368-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221241238321

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