Low power warm-up effect: Understanding the effect of power on creativity over time

Prior research suggests that having power makes individuals more creative, because the powerful are willing to break with convention. We investigate possibility lower can also be creative when given opportunity warm up by completing a task than once. In Study 1 (N = 153), we divided ideation session into two consecutive rounds and found low (vs. high) were less in first round (replicating prior research), but improved second round, attenuating disadvantage. replicated this effect 2 121; pre-registered), different creativity (i.e., structured imagination task) expanded timeframe five instead of two). 3 179; again warm-up using tasks allowed us rule out an alternative explanation. conclude discussing theoretical implications our findings for on dynamic effects practical creativity, social equality, education.