Group/team creativity has been the hot topic in the field of social psychology as well as organizational psychology for several decades. Despite the fact that studies of each field have produced many interesting findings, an overarching theory connecting and integrating these findings is missing. The motivated information processing model (MIP) argues that team creativity is the function of both epistemic motivation and social motivation. The core prediction of MIP is that higher creativity is more likely achieved by teams in which high levels of epistemic motivation are coupled with high levels of prosocial motivation. Based on the MIP model, the aims of the current study are to reveal how epistemic motivation influences team creativity by altering the depth of information processing, and to investigate how social motivation influences team creativity by directing the orientation of information processing. Furthermore, we adopt the multilevel perspective to examine the effects of epistemic and social motivations at team level on individual creativity. The current study is expected to contribute to refinement of MIP model by opening the black box of team information processing. This study also has practical implications for organizations who seek to stimulate creativity at team or individual level.
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