- [[references]] - Title: Constraining effects of examples in a creative generation task. - Meta: - Authored by:: [[Steven M. Smith]] - Year: [[1993]] - Publication: Memory & Cognition - Zotero link: [Zotero Link](zotero://select/items/1_RDPKB8ZD) - URL: [Smith et al. (1993). Constraining effects of examples in a creative generation task.. Memory & Cognition](undefined) - Content - Abstract - In three experiments we tested the conformity hypothesis–that subjects' ideas would conform to examples they had been shown–by using a creative generation paradigm in which subjects imagined and sketched new exemplars of experimenter-defined categories. Designs made by subjects who had first seen three examples of ideas were compared with those of control subjects, who received no examples. In all three experiments, the ^^designs of subjects who had seen the examples were more likely to contain features of the examples^^. This [[conformity effect]] ###### Discourse Context - **Informs::** [[THE - interaction-oriented theory of creative inspiration from examples]]