The Impact of Type of Examples on Originality: Explaining Fixation and Stimulation Effects

Autor/inn/en	Agogué, Marine; Kazakçi, Akin; Hatchuel, Armand; Le Masson, Pascal; Weil, Benoit; Poirel, Nicolas; Cassotti, Mathieu
Titel	The Impact of Type of Examples on Originality: Explaining Fixation and Stimulation Effects
Quelle	In: Journal of Creative Behavior, 48 (2014) 1, S.1-12 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0175
DOI	10.1002/jocb.37
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Barriers; Stimulation; Cognitive Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Kognitive Psychologie
Abstract	There are obstacles to creativity: one of them is called fixation effect, the fact that some knowledge about existing or obvious solutions is spontaneously activated and constrains the generation of new solutions. Converging evidence in cognitive psychology has indicated that the ability to generate original ideas can be limited by recently activated knowledge, such as examples of solutions. On the other hand, neuroimaging studies have recently demonstrated that exposure to examples could, on the contrary, have a stimulating effect on originality. To make sense of what seems to be contradictory studies, we hypothesized that two types of examples could have opposite effects on originality: (1) restrictive examples--within the fixation effect--could lead to a reduction in the originality of the solutions, whereas (2) expansive examples--outside the fixation effect--could provoke solutions of higher originality. Results from a total of 160 participants confirmed that the solutions proposed by the group exposed to restrictive examples were less original than those given by the group exposed to expansive examples. (As Provided).
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