Creativity and ambiguity tolerance

Gary Charness and Daniela Grieco

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 218, issue C

Abstract: We provide experimental evidence on whether engaging in a creative task affects the degree to which one tolerates ambiguity. We find that subjects who completed a creative task invest significantly more in a lottery with unknown odds than subjects involved in a non-creative task, suggesting that being exposed to creativity may engender higher openness to ambiguity and novelty.

Keywords: Creativity; Ambiguity tolerance; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D03 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110720

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