The Influence of Trust on Creativity: A Review

Examining the trust-creativity relationship is important to promote creativity and organizational innovation. The goal of this study is to investigate how trust influences creativity by summarizing existing findings of diverse empirical studies. The impact of trust at different levels on creativity...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 706234
Main Authors Chen, Yan, Yu, Cheng, Yuan, Yuan, Lu, Fang, Shen, Wangbing
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frontiers Media S.A 13.08.2021
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creativity
dispositional trust
interpersonal trust
Psychology
team communication
trust
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Summary:Examining the trust-creativity relationship is important to promote creativity and organizational innovation. The goal of this study is to investigate how trust influences creativity by summarizing existing findings of diverse empirical studies. The impact of trust at different levels on creativity primarily manifests in three ways: (1) individuals' cognition- and affect-based trust has a positive effect on creativity together with the role of trust-derived perspective taking in creativity; (2) interpersonal trust helps enhance the joint creativity of an entire group via mediators such as team communication and commitment together with trust-evoked safety and the motivation to risk proposing, sharing, accepting or adopting uncommon ideas; (3) group trust has a positive, mostly indirect effect on creativity via mediating variables such as collaborative culture/climate and team communication. Potential implications and avenues for future research are also discussed.
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This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Soraia Garcês, University of Madeira, Portugal
Reviewed by: Sofia Sales, University of Madeira, Portugal; Inês Ferraz, Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, Portugal
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.706234