Adolescents' implicit views of creativity and empathetic relationships, along with differences in their dimensions

Given the contemporary educational context, which demands both innovative abilities and social emotional skills from students, it is of great practical significance to understand how teenagers perceive the relationship between creativity and empathy. To uncover teenagers’ implicit views on creativity, two experiments were conducted using the candidate evaluation paradigm. In Study 1 (N=139), participants were presented with a task involving identifying candidates with either high or low levels of creativity. In Study 2 (N=136), cognitive empathy and emotional empathy tasks were separated to investigate the dimensional specificity of this implicit view. The results show that teenagers tend to choose individuals with high creativity to complete the empathy tasks.