• Cognitive style and competence motivation in creative problem solving 

      Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Furnham, Adrian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This study was conceived by the idea that there exist different kinds of cognitive style-based, task competencies that have implications for task motivation and cognitive performance on creative problem-solving tasks/insight. ...
    • Narcissism and creativity 

      Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Furnham, Adrian; Lang-Ree, Ole Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      In this study, we investigated the relationship between narcissism, creative personality traits, ideational fluency, and accomplishments in various creative activities. We measured narcissism with the Narcissistic Personality ...
    • The failing measurement of attitudes: How semantic determinants of individual survey responses come to replace measures of attitude strength. 

      Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune; Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Egeland, Thore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The traditional understanding of data from Likert scales is that the quantifications involved result from measures of attitude strength. Applying a recently proposed semantic theory of survey response (STSR), we claim that ...