Generative learning management. Emotions in Social Creativity
Peter Österberg Department of Psychology, Lund University The article has been updated – the content is the same, but the order has changed. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to investigate emotions in the context of social and organizational creativity. The conclusions made from this paper are that emotions play crucial roles in learning and idea generation as well as for decision making; emotions can be interpreted by others as well as triggered by leaders. An emergent thought that came during the process of writing this paper was the two-factor approach common to many models of psychology (in leadership, decision making, cognition, and so forth). Most models concerning human behavior seem to involve things that can be verbalized and things that cannot; conscious and unconscious thoughts seem to be present at every aspect of human thinking. In Locke and Latham’s Goal-setting theory, challenging symbolic representation, either by imagery or by leadership assignment, tr...