Asymmetric Cross-language Activation of Translations in Korean-English Bilinguals

Just Open Your Mind? A Randomized, Controlled Study on the Effects of Meditation on Creativity

“…To assess the metaphors, we used criteria of creativity employed by Beaty and Silvia (2013): remoteness (the idea is unusual and far from common associations); novelty (the idea is not a "dead" metaphor and is rare in the actual sample); and cleverness (the idea is witty, incisive, and fitting). Judges relied on these criteria to come up with one score, ranging from 1 (not creative) to 5 (very creative), for each metaphor.…”

“…We employed the subjective scoring methodology described by Silvia et al (2008). This method was already successfully used in metaphor production research (Silvia and Beaty, 2012;Beaty and Silvia, 2013). We also took into account some recommendations for the scoring procedure organization put forward by Forthmann et al (2017) to avoid effects from high cognitive workload or misinterpretations of scoring criteria.…”

“…The inconsistency of the results could be related to the difference between the methodologies used in other research in comparison with the present study. Since metaphor production is a tested way of exploring creativity (Silvia and Beaty, 2012;Beaty and Silvia, 2013), we will take a closer look at the three other measures. "Consequences" task is true to the tradition of operationalizing cognitive flexibility as the ability to use different semantic categories (e.g., Murray et al, 1990;.…”

“…It is only recently that metaphor production has become a topic of psychological research (Silvia and Beaty, 2012;Beaty and Silvia, 2013). Until then, metaphors were mostly a concern for philosophers and linguists (Ortega y Gasset, 1990;Turner and Fauconnier, 1995;Lakoff and Johnson, 2003), even though this area of scientific interest is intertwined with some of the crucial psychological topics: creativity, intelligence, insight, and figurative language production.…”

“…Until then, metaphors were mostly a concern for philosophers and linguists (Ortega y Gasset, 1990;Turner and Fauconnier, 1995;Lakoff and Johnson, 2003), even though this area of scientific interest is intertwined with some of the crucial psychological topics: creativity, intelligence, insight, and figurative language production. Novel metaphor production in contemporary research is usually thought to be a creative process and sometimes is used in creativity research (e.g., Silvia and Beaty, 2012;Beaty and Silvia, 2013).…”