信任对创造力的影响:激发、抑制以及倒U假设

信任和创造力都是心理学的重要研究对象。近年来,心理学、教育学以及管理学的研究者主要在团体情景中,围绕信任如何影响创造力的问题展开了一系列的理论和实证研究。从总体上看,当前学术界存在信任对创造力影响的激发、抑制和倒U三种假设。激发假设代表信任对创造力存在普遍的积极促进作用;抑制假设则意味信任对创造力存在消极抑制作用;而倒U假设表明信任在冲突等其它变量的影响下可能对创造力产生"甜点效应"。3种假设各有其理论基础和实证支持,但也都存在一些问题。未来该领域研究还应沿着妥善选择测量方法,厘清信任对创造力的影响,深化信任对创造力影响的机制问题等研究角度进一步拓展和深入。

The impact of trust on creativity: Activation,inhibition and inverted U model hypothesis

Trust and creativity are focal topics of psychological study.In recent years,researchers in psychology,pedagogy and management have developed a series of theoretical and empirical studies about how trust affects creativity in group settings.There are three hypotheses on the whole:activation,inhibition and the inverted U model.The activation hypothesis means that trust can promote creativity generally.The inhibition hypothesis shows that under certain conditions,trust will hamper creativity.The inverted U model means that with the effects of conflict and other variables,trust may create a "sweet spot effect" for creativity.The three hypotheses all can be supported by theory and empirical analysis,but there still appears to be some problems.In the future the research should be developed from the angle of selecting the measurement methods properly,clarifying the influence of trust on creativity and deepening understandings of the mechanism of how trust influences creativity.