Research Shows Cheating May Boost Creativity
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Could cheating boost creativity?
A new study says yes.
The research, out of Harvard Business School and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, suggests that lying about your performance on one thing could increase creativity in another.
To test the link between cheating and creativity, researchers designed a series of experiments that allowed for — and practically encouraged — cheating.
According to researchers, 59% of the study’s respondents cheated by increasing their performance on a test involving number matrices. And interestingly, those who cheated subsequently performed better on a word association test commonly used to assess creativity.
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