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Positive affect facilitates creative problem solving.
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Four experiments indicated that positive affect, induced by means of seeing a few minutes of a comedy film or by means of receiving a small bag of candy, improved performance on two tasks that are generally regarded as requiring creative ingenuity: Duncker's (1945) candle task and M. T. Mednick, S. A. Mednick, and E. V. Mednick's (1964) Remote Associates Test. One condition in which negative affect was induced and two in which subjects engaged in physical exercise (intended to represent affectless arousal) failed to produce comparable improvements in creative performance. The influence of positive affect on creativity was discussed in terms of a broader theory of the impact of positive affect on cognitive organization.
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“people experiencing positive emotions show patterns of thought that are significantly broadened and diverse (Isen, Johnson, Mertz, & Robinson, 1985), flexible (Isen & Daubman, 1984), creative (Isen, Daubman, & Nowicki, 1987), integrative (Isen, Rosenzweig, & Young, 1991), open to information (Estrada, Isen, & Young, 1997), and efficient (Isen & Means, 1983;Isen et al., 1991).”
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“Consistent with such views, a robust and widely confirmed finding is that positive affect is linked to a creative and more generative mindset that results in greater cognitive flexibility across diverse situations, including medical diagnosis (13, 14), industrial negotiations (15), intuitive judgments (16), decision making (17), and creative problem-solving tasks (18, 19).”
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“For example, on the remote associates task (RAT; ref. 20), a test of creative problem solving, people are more likely to solve unusual word associations when they are in a positive, compared with negative or neutral, mood (16, 18, 19, 21).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Isen, A. M., Daubman, K. A., & Nowicki, G. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (US)
- ORCID
- Daubman, Kimberly A.
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1987
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1122-1131
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W1996314002
- Cited by
- 2,986
- References
- 42
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- FWCI
- 19.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Public Health Service (37452)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychological and Educational Research Studies
- Keywords
- positive affect, creativity, creative problem solving, negative affect, emotional arousal, physical activity, Remote Associates Test, cognitive organization, humor
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affect, Arousal, Creativity, Female, Humans, Male, Problem Solving, Psychomotor Performance
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