Connected Creativity: Exploring Dyadic Dynamics Across Settings

Abstract

The present study investigated hybrid and in person environments and regarding creativity at the dyadic level over time. Participants met three separate times to work together on a creativity task and were assigned to either meeting face to face for the duration of the study or meeting in person for the first session and then moving to a virtual environment. A total of 42 graduate and undergraduate students from Middle Tennessee State University participated in this study. The Guilford Consequences Tasks were used to assess creativity. Measures for demographics, cognitive ability, personality, and psychoaffective variables were also collected. There were 11 dyads in the hybrid condition and 10 dyads in the in person condition. A factorial ANOVA was conducted and found no difference in creative outcomes regardless of condition but a difference in the number of scores generated depending on the session number. Overall, ideas directly related to the creativity task increased over time and ideas indirectly related to the creativity task decreased over time. These findings suggest hybrid and in person environments facilitate similar idea generation abilities.