Concerns and hopes for creativity research

Abstract

A critical self-examination of the author's comments delivered at JCSS 2021 OS9 on the creative self. The central message of the comment is that researchers need to be aware of the fact that creativity is not unconditionally desirable, and that the concept of creativeness is applied to various entities such as products, individuals, work processes, etc., bridging the conceptual worlds of experts and non-experts, respectively.