Opening the mind through the body: The effects of posture on creative processes

Andolfi, Valentina Rita; Nuzzo, Chiara Di; Antonietti, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2017.02.012

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“…Recent studies have suggested that somatosensory inputs can activate such conceptual metaphorical mapping and simultaneously or subsequently affect creative thinking. For example, since openness is metaphorically associated with divergence in creative thinking, open body postures lead to better divergent creative performance than closed postures [ 15 ]. Similarly, activities involving larger areas of the facial muscles lead to broader perceptual and conceptual attention, facilitating the originality of generated ideas [ 16 ].…”

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Fluid movements enhance creative fluency: A replication of Slepian and Ambady (2012)

2020

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Bodily movements representing abstract concepts (e.g., fluidity) can affect divergent creative thinking. A recent study showed that participants who performed fluid arm movements by tracing curved line-drawings (the fluid condition) subsequently generated a larger number of more original alternative uses for newspapers than did those who traced angular linedrawings (the non-fluid condition). This suggests that fluid movements enhance fluency and originality in divergent creative thinking. To replicate these findings, we employed the same task with a larger Japanese sample. Participants in the fluid condition generated more uses for newspapers than in the non-fluid condition, regardless of confounding variables: mood, subjective difficulty of the tracing, and daily use of newspapers. In contrast to previous findings, there were no effects on originality. Our results suggest that fluidity enacted by arm movements robustly enhances creative fluency, although other factors (e.g., culture) could interfere with its effect on originality.

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Fluid movements enhance creative fluency: A replication of Slepian and Ambady (2012)

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“…This was particularly useful for patients with limited arm mobility due to their stroke event. This finding should be kept in mind for future implementations because of the influential role played by body actions in creativity (Andolfi, Di Nuzzo, & Antonietti, ).…”

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CREC: the role of serious games in improving flexibility in thinking in neuropsychological rehabilitation

Colautti¹,

Baldassini²,

Colombo³

et al. 2018

Brit J Educational Tech

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An exploratory study aimed at testing CREC, a training programme designed for people with cognitive impairments caused by a stroke, is reported. The goal of the programme is to improve flexibility in thinking through a creative approach based on everyday problems. The programme includes two Serious Games (SGs) developed ad hoc, dealing with the transfer of the learned strategies to the home environment. The training was applied to six patients to test if it could bring beneficial effects to them. Before and after the training, patients’ neuropsychological functioning, emotional state and level of creativity were assessed. Results showed improvements in memory, logical reasoning and praxic skills. Improvements in quality of life and in creativity emerged as well. At the end of the training, the patients perceived themselves as more efficient in problem solving and recognised that the SGs led them to reflect critically on some aspects of their daily life that they usually took for granted.

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“…By demonstrating posture effects on elementary social behaviour with reasonable statistical power, the present study makes a valuable contribution to the literature. First, despite the posture's primary social signalling function, most previous studies focused on non-social behaviour such as risky gambling, abstract or creative thinking (Andolfi et al, 2017;Huang et al, 2011), or behaviour that requires high-level cognitive processes, such as sales negotiation, cheating or planning to take revenge or to volunteer Peña & Chen, 2017;Strelan et al, 2014;Yap et al, 2013). The only existing study on low-level and implicit social behaviour, namely visual dominance behaviour and speaking time, reported no significant effects, but was statistically underpowered (Jamnik & Zvelc, 2017).…”

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Power posture effects on approach and avoidance decisions in response to social threat

Metzler¹,

Vilarem²,

Petschen³

et al. 2020

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Individuals’ opportunities for action in threatening social contexts largely depend on their social power. While powerful individuals can afford to confront aggressors and dangers, powerless individuals need others’ support and better avoid direct challenges. Here, we investigated if adopting expansive or constrictive postures, which function as social signals of power, impacts individuals’ approach and avoidance decisions in response to social threat signals using a within-subject design. Overall, participants more often chose to avoid rather than to approach angry individuals, but showed no clear approach or avoidance preference for fearful individuals. Crucially, constrictive posture considerably increased the tendency to avoid angry individuals, whereas expansive postures induced no substantial changes. This suggests that adopting power-related postures can impact action decisions in response to social threat signals. The present results emphasize the social function of power postures and are discussed in the context of the debate on the replicability of power posture effects.

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Opening the mind through the body: The effects of posture on creative processes

Cited by 30 publications

References 39 publications

Fluid movements enhance creative fluency: A replication of Slepian and Ambady (2012)

Fluid movements enhance creative fluency: A replication of Slepian and Ambady (2012)

CREC: the role of serious games in improving flexibility in thinking in neuropsychological rehabilitation

Power posture effects on approach and avoidance decisions in response to social threat

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