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Creative feelings

Author(s) -

Paul T. Sowden,

Leah Dawson

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

surrey open research repository (university of surrey)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.1145/2069618.2069712

Subject(s) - mood , feeling , ideation , set (abstract data type) , psychology , negative mood , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , computer science , cognitive science , programming language

Research has found mixed effects of mood on creative problem solving. Here we examined the effects of mood on two components of creative problem solving; ideation and evaluation. After induction of positive, negative or neutral mood participants completed ideation and evaluation tasks. Results showed that a positive mood facilitates ideation whereas a negative mood facilitated evaluation. Persons in a negative mood set their criterion for usefulness of ideas higher than did those in a positive mood. This would lead to continued search for optimal solutions and improve performance on creative problem solving tasks in which the quality, rather than quantity, of solutions is important

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