Rewards and creative performance: A meta-analytic test of theoretically derived hypotheses
Across ages Creativity Feedback and assessment
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Supports (1)
| Claim | Basis |
|---|---|
| C4 | Adjacent (creativity, not learning): rewards help creative performance more when paired with task-focused, informative feedback and choice; controlling or completion-based rewards slightly hurt. Consistent with C4's task/process feedback over bare grades; does not test a later learning outcome. Abstract only. |
Review state: first-pass draft, pending human review.
Source note
Syntes: Byron (2012): rewards tied to creativity raise it, especially with task-focused feedback and choice; rewards for mere completion slightly lower it
Källa: Byron, K.; Khazanchi, S. (2012). Rewards and creative performance: A meta-analytic test of theoretically derived hypotheses. Psychological Bulletin 138(4), 809–830. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027652
Verified content (abstract (OpenAlex record); full text paywalled, not read, checked 2026-10-14)
- Design (abstract): random-effects meta-analysis of 60 studies (69 samples), children and adults, five moderators.
- Findings (abstract): creativity-contingent rewards tend to increase creative performance, more so with positive, contingent, task-focused performance feedback and more choice; performance- or completion-contingent rewards have a slight negative effect.
- Limits: creative performance, not learning; mixed designs.
Why it is in the library
Added in a targeted search for studies that measure creativity directly (theme: kreativitet), for Jonatan's lecture on creativity, AI and learning.
Metadata as recorded
- ID
- CRE-007
- Tier
- meta
- Creativity measured directly
- yes
- Titel
- Rewards and creative performance: A meta-analytic test of theoretically derived hypotheses
- Författare
- Byron, K.; Khazanchi, S.
- År
- 2012 (Psychological Bulletin 138(4), 809–830)
- Källa/DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027652
- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027652
- Typ
- meta-analysis, 60 experimental and nonexperimental studies (69 samples), children and adults
- Åldersgrupp
- overgripande
- Teman
- kreativitet;feedback-bedomning
- Hämtad
- 2026-10-14
- Read
- abstract (OpenAlex record); full text paywalled, not read
- Tillagd
- creativity search 2026-10-14 (requested by Jonatan via Noll); links pending human review
The original files (PDF or abstract) are kept in the project archive and are not published here.