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I am a social psychologist studying creativity and culture, both separately and together.

My creativity research looks at the role of novelty and chance in creative success, how people attribute the causes of creative success, and the prospects for creative artificial intelligence.

My culture research concerns differences in the fundamental attribution error in East Asian and Western cultures, looking particularly at whether these differences are internally consistent relative to other culture-specific beliefs, and at the role of memory.

Upcoming Travel and Conferences

Recent Presentations

  • I presented a paper at the First International Conference on Computational Creativity where I presented a paper:
    • Search Strategies and the Creative Process [Paper]
  • I attended the ACM's Creativity and Cognition conference in Berkeley last October, where I was sole author on a poster and co-author on a paper:
    • Early Results with Faceted Classification of "Alternate Uses" Test Responses [Extended Abstract]
    • Growing and Destroying the Worth of Ideas (Sosa, R., Gero, J., and Jennings, K. E.) [Paper]
  • I presented a poster at the Association for Psychological Science Convention in San Francisco:
    • A Bayesian Reexamination of Cross-Cultural Differences in Attitude Attribution

Selected Papers and Presentations

Creativity

  • Creative Artificial Intelligence and Creativity Simulations
    • Sosa, R., Gero, J., and Jennings, K. E. (2009, October). Growing and Destroying the Worth of Ideas. ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Berkeley, California. [Paper]
    • Jennings, K. E. (2008, September). Developing creativity: Artificial barriers in artificial intelligence. Fifth International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, Madrid, Spain. [Paper]
    • "Why Simulating Creativity Matters" (talk given at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, March 2008). [Slides, Podcast]
      • See also: "Adjusting the novelty thermostat: Courting creative success through judicious randomness." [Paper, Poster]
  • Novelty
    • Jennings, K. E. (2008, March). Adjusting the novelty thermostat: Courting creative success through judicious randomness. AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford, California. [Paper, Poster]
      • See also: "Why Simulating Creativity Matters" [Slides, Podcast]
    • "Kinds of Novelty and Their Place in the Creative Process" (talk given to the University of Sussex e-Intentionality research group, February 2008). [Audio]
  • Attribution of Creativity
    • Jennings, K. E. (2008, July). The Double-Edged Sword of "Hazardous" Traits in Creative Achievement, and Our Blindness to It. Poster presented at the International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology Conference, Berlin, Germany. [Poster]
    • Jennings, K. E. (2007, October). Statistical errors in creativity research: Survivorship bias and alpha inflation in attributing creativity and its causes. Tenth European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark. [Handout]
  • Speedstorming
    • Joyce, C. K., Jennings, K. E., Hey, J. H. G., Kalil, T., and Grossman, J. C. (In press). Getting Down to Business: Using Speedstorming to Initiate Creative Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration. Creativity & Innovation Management.
    • Hey, J., Joyce, C., Jennings, K. E., Kalil, T., Grossman, J. C. (2009). Putting the discipline in interdisciplinary: Using speedstorming to teach and initiate creative collaboration in nanoscience. Journal of Nanoeducation, 1(1), 75–85.
    • Joyce, C., Jennings, K. E., Hey, J., Kalil, T., Grossman, J. C. (2007, October). Getting down to business: Results using speedstorming to initiate creative collaborations. Tenth European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark. (Selected as one of the top five papers at the conference.) [Handout]
  • Creativity as Search
    • Jennings, K. E. (January, 2010). Search Strategies and the Creative Process. First International Conference on Computational Creativity, Lisbon, Portugal. [Paper]
    • Jennings, K. E. (October, 2009). Early Results with Faceted Classification of "Alternate Uses" Test Responses. Poster presented at the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Berkeley, CA. [Extended Abstract]
    • Jennings, K. E. (2008, March). Adjusting the novelty thermostat: Courting creative success through judicious randomness. AAAI Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford, California. [Paper, Poster]

Attribution and Culture

  • Bayesian Models of Attribution
    • Jennings, K. E., and Peng, K. (2009, May). A Bayesian Reexamination of Cross-Cultural Differences in Attitude Attribution. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Convention, San Francisco, CA.
    • Jennings, K. E. (2008, July). Cultural Differences in Trait Attribution and Discounting: A Bayesian Perspective. Presentation at the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conference, Bremen, Germany.
  • Memory Structure and Attribution
    • Jennings, K. E. (2008, July). Making Meaningful Memory Structure Comparisons Using Bootstrap Analysis of Pathfinder Networks. Presentation at the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany. [Slides]
    • Jennings, K. E. (2007, May). A Network Analysis Approach to Understanding Cultural Differences in Attribution. Presentation at the Association for Psychological Science Convention, Washington, D.C.

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