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Across two between-subject experiments (\n                      <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f600), we examined how creation mode and prespecified AI-involvement workflows related to perceived creativity.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In Study 1, participants completed digital art tasks under human-only creation, AI-only generation, or human-AI co-creation conditions. In Study 2, three workflows differing in AI involvement (low, moderate, high) were evaluated. Psychological ownership, perceived agency, creative flow, and perceived creativity were measured.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In Study 1, human-AI co-creation produced higher perceived-creativity ratings than AI-only generation, with indirect effects consistent with a serial pathway through psychological ownership, perceived agency, and creative flow. In Study 2, the moderate-involvement workflow yielded higher perceived-creativity ratings and psychological states than the low- and high-involvement workflows.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Perceived creativity in generative-AI art depends on how users experience contribution, control, and engagement during creation. Within the workflows tested, balancing generative assistance with consequential user choice fosters the most favorable subjective creativity evaluations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1986050","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,9]],"date-time":"2026-10-09T04:25:57Z","timestamp":1791519957000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The impact of human-AI co-creation on perceived creativity in generative AI art: a serial mediation mechanism of psychological ownership, perceived agency, and creative flow"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Chenyang","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of New Media Art, Xi\u2019an Polytechnic University","place":["Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Miao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of New Media Art, Xi\u2019an Polytechnic University","place":["Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wen","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Country and Region Studies, Northwest University","place":["Xi\u2019an, Shaanxi, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"6","DOI":"10.38027\/smart-v1n1-2","article-title":"The role of artificial intelligence in enhancing design innovation and sustainability","volume":"1","author":"Agboola","year":"2024","journal-title":"Smart Des. 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