The effect of negative feedback hierarchy on creativity: the mediating role of positive affect and strategy modification
Mengrong Liu, Jingwen Zhao, Weiguo Pang · 2025
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Mengrong Liu, Jingwen Zhao, and Weiguo Pang tested how the tone of bad feedback shapes fresh ideas in a 2025 study. Feedback can aim at the task or at the person. The team asked which kind helps or hurts the making of new ideas, and what paths link the two.
Two hundred sixty-four students took part across three tests. Those who got task-focused bad feedback kept more good mood, changed their approach more, and scored higher on idea tasks than those judged as persons. A group that got both mood help and a new approach did best of all. The findings give teachers and bosses a clear rule: judge the work, not the worker.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mengrong Liu, Jingwen Zhao, Weiguo Pang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 73 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |