Christophe Mouchiroud's research while affiliated with Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and other places

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This book focuses on creativity and showcases a specific approach to creativity. It uses a new 7 C’s basis for understanding creativity (creators, creating, cooperation, context, creations, consumption, and curricula). This new approach to creativity is an extension of the 4 ‘P’ approach (person, process, press, and product) which has dominated the...
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In this chapter, we discuss the social environment as an important factor to consider in understanding creativity. We use as a framework for describing the environment’s effects on creativity Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (1979, 1986), which proposes that the individual’s psychological development results from interactions with differe...
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Scientific careers depend largely on the evaluation of one’s merit. Yet scientists agree that the measurement of merit is quite a complex endeavor. Some indicators exist, such as Hirsch’s well-known h index, but none can fully capture the complexity of the notion of merit. We propose that the h factor should be complemented with additional useful m...
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Pièce centrale encore méconnue du fonctionnement humain, la créativité est sollicitée sitôt qu’il s’agit, dans la vie personnelle et professionnelle, de résoudre de nouveaux problèmes ou de s’adapter à l’environnement ; elle est un moteur essentiel de la croissance culturelle et économique, et nos sociétés la valorisent de plus en plus. Mais qu’en...
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Children are widely celebrated for their imaginations, but developmental research on this topic has often been fragmented or narrowly focused on fantasy. However, there is growing appreciation for the role that imagination plays in cognitive and emotional development, as well as its link with children’s understanding of the real world. With their i...
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The present paper outlines an action theory of creativity and substantiates this approach by investigating creative expression in five different domains. We propose an action framework for the analysis of creative acts built on the assumption that creativity is a relational, inter-subjective phenomenon. This framework, drawing extensively from the...
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Recent advances in the study of affective-cognitive regulation of aggressive behavior suggest positive correlations between poor executive capacities (ECF) and dispositional negative reactivity (Posner & Rothbart, 2000). If the global assumption is correct what are the likely implications of predicted relation? The central issue in present research...
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Comment décrire, comprendre, prédire ou expliquer les différences individuelles ? Quels sont leurs rôles et leurs effets dans les secteurs de la santé, de l’éducation et du travail ? Quelles méthodes, théories et modélisations permettent d’appréhender efficacement les différences individuelles en contexte ? Cet ouvrage part des grands champs d’appl...
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Creativity can be broadly defined as a combination of interacting individual and environmental resources leading to the production of valuable solutions. This paper concentrates on the type of creativity that can be expressed in solving social problems. After reviewing the potentially relevant psychological and contextual variables intervening in s...
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Many problems can be solved by accessing stored knowledge or by applying pre-established, “algorithmic” procedures to reach a solution. Such problems are the bread and butter of problem solving; from kindergarten to the university, students accumulate a great deal of experience with these “canned” problems. Difficulties arise, however, when people...
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We assessed children’s social creativity through interviews during which participants imagined original solutions to interpersonal problems. In addition, we compared performances in the social domain with those obtained in object-oriented problem-solving tasks such as the Unusual Uses of a Box creativity test designed by Torrance (1974) and the Sim...
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Children's creative potential is often assessed using cognitive tests that require divergent thinking, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT; E. P. Torrance, 1974, 1976, 1990). In this study the authors investigated the effect of various scoring systems on the originality index, evaluating the high intercorrelation of fluency and or...

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... Magic and religion both invoke the supernatural. They can be distinguished by several qualitatively distinct features, including (1) magic promises immediate rewards observable in this life, whereas religion generally promises unobservable rewards in a later life or nonempirical metaphysical realm; and (2) magic purports to work through the manipulation of impersonal forces (e.g., Mana) or the compulsion of personal forces whom the magician controls (e.g., imps, demons), whereas religion purports to work through supplication to gods who are more powerful than the supplicant and who can, and often do, refuse requests (Rosengren and French 2013;Stark 2008). ...
... A recent symposium published in Perspectives on Psychological Science on measuring merit in academia speaks directly to this point. Specifically, Lubart and Mouchiroud (2017) propose that psychology more generally should move beyond the common measures of merit, such as the popular h-index (Hirsch, 2005), to include measures of transmission, originality, usefulness, and generativity. For example, they view usefulness as developing "valuable new tools or practices in an applied setting" (Hirsch, 2005(Hirsch, , p. 1160. ...
... Evaluation du Potentiel Créatif (EPoC). Paris, France: Editions Hogrefe Lubart, T.,Mouchiroud, C., Tordjman, S., & Zenasni, F. (2015). Psychologie de la créativité-2e édition. ...
... The C-SAT is further subdivided in three dimensions, one for the creativity process, one for the scientific process and the third dimension for the specific area of science (biology, interdisciplinary science, chemistry, physics, and ecology). Interestingly the authors do not include originality in the test scoring, based on studies which show that fluency and originality highly correlate (Mouchiroud & Lubart, 2001). ...
... The essence of creativity can be summed up as the capacity to resolve aproblem in a novel way (Runco & Jaeger, 2012). Furthermore, creativity is defined as a rocessinvolving both cognitive traits, including specific strategies such as transferring a pecificskill in a new environment, and non-cognitive traits, including intrinsic motivation openness to experience (Lubart & Mouchiroud, 2003). Creativity measures have been explored in manyways, including: psychometric tests which measure performance, behaviour and workassessments, and self-assessment measures aimed at comparing children'sself-representationof specific personality traits (Fanchini et al., 2019). ...
... The psychology of creativity considers creative action, such as scriptwriting, within the creative problem-solving framework (Lubart et al. 2003, Bourgeois-Bougrine et al. 2014. A screenwriter who seeks to express his or her feelings in an original way is considered to be involved in solving a problem. ...
... Les enfants à haut potentiel semblent présenter certains traits de personnalité caractéristiques (Lens et Rand, 2000 ;Zenasni et Mouchiroud, 2005). Selon la littérature concernant la créativité chez l'adulte, la tendance à la prise de risque, l'ouverture aux idées, la tolérance à l'ambiguïté, la persévérance et la motivation intrinsèque sont souvent considérées comme des traits importants (Lubart et al., 2003). ...
... SC is the creativity implemented in social situations to solve social problems in original, appropriate and effective ways (Gu, Hu, Ngwira, Jing & Zhou, 2016;Mouchiroud & Zenasni, 2013). An individual with higher SC exhibits cleverness and wisdom in social problem-solving. ...
... Here a " creativity as social judgment " perspective (see Amabile, 1996) can help us draw a firm line between social creativity and antisocial inventions. Nevertheless , aggressive acts can be examined through our creativity approach to social relations (Lubart, Mouchiroud, Zenasni, & Averill, 2004). As the emergence of socially creative behaviours can initiate positive social change, lack of it may turn social contacts into aggressive ones. ...
... Group variables Age, sex, fluid intelligence, and SES were collected to verify homogeneity between the two groups (i.e., Montessori and traditional) as those variables can influence creative thinking (Beaty et al., 2014;Castillo-Vergara et al., 2018;Mouchiroud & Lubart, 2016;Piaw, 2014). Firstly, the normality of the data was tested through Shapiro-Wilk tests on age, fluid intelligence, and SES. ...