<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This study provides preliminary data on the dynamic role of participants’ agency-communion orientation in their perception of fictional students’ agency, communion and creativity, depending on descriptions of stereotypical and unstereotypical traits and behaviours. I propose that a stereotypically masculine description (i.e. more agentic) will boost the male’s - but not the female’s - perceived creativity. Polish students majoring in computer science (N = 108) read short stories about male and female interns at an IT company. Participants assessed the interns’ agency, communion and creativity. The results demonstrated that the image of the agentic man as well as the participants’ agentic-orientation are significant predictors of a male’s perceived creativity. The findings are discussed in terms of the gender-based nature of the agency-communion concept.</p></abstract>

This study provides preliminary data on the dynamic role of participants’ agency-communion orientation in their perception of fictional students’ agency, communion and creativity, depending on descriptions of stereotypical and unstereotypical traits and behaviours. I propose that a stereotypically masculine description (i.e. more agentic) will boost the male’s - but not the female’s - perceived creativity. Polish students majoring in computer science (N = 108) read short stories about male and female interns at an IT company. Participants assessed the interns’ agency, communion and creativity. The results demonstrated that the image of the agentic man as well as the participants’ agentic-orientation are significant predictors of a male’s perceived creativity. The findings are discussed in terms of the gender-based nature of the agency-communion concept.

From Big Bang to Big Gap? Potential Links Between Agency-Communion Orientation and Perception of Creativity in Computer Science

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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This study provides preliminary data on the dynamic role of participants’ agency-communion orientation in their perception of fictional students’ agency,...

From Big Bang to Big Gap? Potential Links Between Agency-Communion Orientation and Perception of Creativity in Computer Science

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 363 - 378

Received: Mar 09, 2016

Accepted: Oct 08, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ctra-2016-0022

Keywords
Agency-Communion Orientation, Perception of Creativity, Gender Stereotypes, Computer Science

© 2016 Marta Kwaśnik, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

From Big Bang to Big Gap? Potential Links Between Agency-Communion Orientation and Perception of Creativity in Computer Science

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 363 - 378

Received: Mar 09, 2016

Accepted: Oct 08, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ctra-2016-0022

KeywordsAgency-Communion Orientation, Perception of Creativity, Gender Stereotypes, Computer Science

© 2016 Marta Kwaśnik, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Agency-Communion Orientation, Perception of Creativity, Gender Stereotypes, Computer Science