Creative production by angry people peaks early on, decreases over time, and is relatively unstructured

Baas, Michiel; Dreu, Carsten K. W. De; Nijstad, Bernard A.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2011.05.009

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“…Although the previous studies have found several ways to raise creative thinking (Baas et al, 2011;Davis, 2009;Hao et al, 2017;Isen et al, 1987;Oppezzo and Schwartz, 2014;Wu et al, 2016;Yamada and Nagai, 2015), the present study revealed that one of the simplest ways, eye closure, improves creativity. This finding of the present study is possibly applied in the field of education or business in the future.…”

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“…For example, a positive mood boosts the generation of new ideas (Davis, 2009;Isen et al, 1987;Yamada and Nagai, 2015). A negative mood, particularly anger, also improves creativity (Baas et al, 2011). Additionally, certain body postures and physical action improve creative thinking (Hao et al, 2017;Oppezzo and Schwartz, 2014) and observing ambiguous figures that can be interpreted in two ways, such as Rubin's vase, enhances performance in creative tasks (Wu et al, 2016).…”

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‘‘Close, and ye shall find’’: eye closure during thinking enhances creativity

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Facilitation of creative thinking is an important element for innovation. It has been suggested that cognitive resources are involved in creative thinking; however, little evidence of this involvement has been found. To address this issue, the present study focuses on eye closure, which saves more cognitive resources than open eyes. Forty participants experienced both close-eyed and open-eyed conditions, and all of them were asked to generate new names for rice and tea. The results revealed that in the close-eyed condition, participants generated 1.6-times more divergent (unrestricted and flexible) ideas than in the open-eyed condition, suggesting that closing eyes during thinking enhances creativity. Our findings provide empirical evidence for the necessity of cognitive resources in creative thinking.

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“…Por último, algunos estudios más actuales se han propuesto analizar el impacto que tiene el enojo sobre la creatividad (e.g. Baas et al, 2011a;Van Kleef, Anastasopoulou & Nijstad, 2010). En un trabajo realizado por MironSpektor, Efrat-Treister, Rafaeli y SchwarzCohen (2011) se investigaron los efectos del enojo sobre el pensamiento creativo y el pensamiento analítico.…”

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“…Otros estudios que incluyen el enojo han encontrado que promueve respuestas más creativas que otras emociones negativas tales como la tristeza o los estados neutros (Baas et al, 2011a). Sin embargo, también se informa que este mejor desempeño se registra únicamente al inicio de la tarea y que, en el transcurso, el rendimiento decae.…”

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“…Sin embargo, también se informa que este mejor desempeño se registra únicamente al inicio de la tarea y que, en el transcurso, el rendimiento decae. Según Baas et al (2011a) esto se debe a que el enojo pone en alerta y activa al organismo al comenzar la actividad pero dicho esfuerzo inicial facilita, simultáneamente, que los individuos se sientan fatigados más rápidamente.…”

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The impact of anger on creative process engagement: The role of social contexts

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Drawing on the cognitive persistence perspective of creativity and conservation of resources theory, we investigated how 2 social contexts (perceived relationship conflict and coworker support for creativity) influence the relationship between anger and creative process engagement (CPE) in organizations. We tested our hypotheses using 422 daily surveys from 98 participants, collected over 5 consecutive workdays. The results show that anger perceived relationship conflict and coworker support for creativity interact to influence CPE. Specifically, when relationship conflict is high, the anger-CPE relationship is positive for employees who receive high coworker support for creativity, but negative for those who receive low coworker support for creativity. In contrast, when relationship conflict is low, the anger-CPE relationship is positive but does not differ at high versus low coworker support for creativity.

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Creative production by angry people peaks early on, decreases over time, and is relatively unstructured

Cited by 70 publications

References 61 publications

‘‘Close, and ye shall find’’: eye closure during thinking enhances creativity

‘‘Close, and ye shall find’’: eye closure during thinking enhances creativity

Emoción y creatividad: una relación compleja

The impact of anger on creative process engagement: The role of social contexts

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