Conscious Augmentation of Creative State Enhances "Real" Creativity in Open-Ended Analogical Reasoning.

ABSTRACT: Humans have an impressive ability to augment their creative state (i.e., to consciously try and succeed at thinking more creatively). Though this "thinking cap" phenomenon is commonly experienced, the range of its potential has not been fully explored by creativity research, which has often focused instead on creativity as a trait. A key question concerns the extent to which conscious augmentation of state creativity can improve creative reasoning. Although artistic creativity is also of great interest, it is creative reasoning that frequently leads to innovative advances in science and industry. Here, we studied state creativity in analogical reasoning, a form of relational reasoning that spans the conceptual divide between intelligence and creativity and is a core mechanism for creative

SUBMITTER: Weinberger AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4784911 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature