Similar to the effect of positive emotion on creativity, manic state also improves individual creativity due to its high emotion and active thinking. Richards and Kinney asked individuals with mood disorders to review and evaluate their emotional states when they were most creative, and the subjects pointed out that when they were most creative, there was a moderate state of pleasure. Hypomania, Jamison reasoned, is the opportunity for most creative thinking to develop. Slater and Meyer's careful analysis of schumann's life shows that his two years of hypomania were the peak of his composing, significantly higher than the depression he experienced. In addition, Jamison found that creative individuals, especially poets, experienced similar psychological, physiological and manic states at the peak of creative output.
Other scholars believe that depression, rather than mania, promotes creativity, while positive emotional states only promote individual motivation and have no effect on creative thinking. Richards points out that it may be depression that promotes creative output from artists. In a depressed state, the alienation of the individual from the external environment will promote the creation of new ideas. Artists may create more high-quality works in a depressed state.
Like positive and negative emotions, mania and depression have different effects on creativity. Moderate mania and depression are both needed to create, mild mania can provide energy for creative behavior, and moderate depression can provide the necessary critical evaluation for creative results.
According to the above, it is clear that positive and negative emotions have different effects on creativity in different leadership styles, working environments, and team discussion environments. Therefore, in the organizational environment, if managers expect to stimulate their creativity by regulating the emotional state of employees, they need to apply these findings appropriately to specific organizational situations.
Democratic or charismatic leaders can enhance employees' positive emotions. They genuinely care for their subordinates and give them full authority and trust. Such a leadership style will enhance the motivation of employees to generate new ideas through self-reflection, thus promoting employees to be more creative. Autocratic managers, on the other hand, can trigger negative emotions of employees. Their distrust makes employees merely tools for passive execution, and their emotions are often suppressed. Such a leadership style is obviously not conducive to employees' initiative to generate new ideas, but in this case, if the leaders assign creative tasks to employees in the form of orders, employees will also have better creative performance.
A relaxed and pleasant working environment can make employees feel happy and thus improve their motivation to take the initiative. This approach is more appropriate for organizations that require all employees to think actively and interact with each other. At innovative companies like Google and apple, for example, employees are at home, even more comfortable th
