Open AccessA novel coding scheme for assessing responses in divergent thinking: An embodied approach.
Author(s) -
Heath E. Matheson,
Yoed N. Kenett
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.279
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1931-390X
pISSN - 1931-3896
DOI - 10.1037/aca0000297
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , divergent thinking , coding (social sciences) , creativity , cognition , psychology , perspective (graphical) , convergent thinking , cognitive psychology , neurocognitive , scheme (mathematics) , cognitive science , computer science , creative thinking , artificial intelligence , social psychology , sociology , mathematics , social science , mathematical analysis , neuroscience
In the present study we devised a novel coding scheme for responses generated in a divergent thinking task. Based on considerations from behavioural and neurocognitive research from an embodied perspective, our scheme aims to capture dimensions of simulations of action or the body. In an exploratory investigation, we applied our novel coding scheme to analyze responses from a previously published dataset of divergent thinking responses. We show that a) these dimensions are reliably coded by naïve raters, and that b) individual differences in creativity influences the way in which different dimensions are used over time. Overall, our results provide new hypotheses about the generation of creative response in the divergent thinking task and should serve to characterize the cognitive strategies used in creative endeavors.