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Nomination of Domestic and Overseas Creative Celebrities: The German Style and the Factors Behind It

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Studies have shown an aesthetic salience among Western people’s perceptions of creative persons – the tendency to nominate celebrities from the artistic (including literary and philosophical) field as main representatives of creativity. This study was designed to replicate and extend the previous studies with the aim to test this phenomenon with a German sample and examine the factors behind the nominations. A total of 192 students (62.5% females, Mage = 26.1, SD = 4.4) from all over Germany were asked to nominate the most creative Germans and the most creative persons in the world. The aesthetic salience in their nominations was confirmed for both conditions, and it was more pronounced for domestic nominations. The nominated celebrities were predominantly male creators. This aesthetic salience could be partly explained by a four-factor model composed of creativity, likability, social contributions, and influence of others. Analysis of the media coverage revealed a large contribution of Google hits to the creative fame of the nominated persons. Social psychological theories were applied to interpret the results.

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Tang, M., Moser, M. (2019). Nomination of Domestic and Overseas Creative Celebrities: The German Style and the Factors Behind It. In: Lebuda, I., Glăveanu, V.P. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Creativity Research. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95498-1_19

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