Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study

Autor/inn/en	van Genugten, Ruben D. I.; Beaty, Roger E.; Madore, Kevin P.; Schacter, Daniel L.
Titel	Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study
Quelle	In: Creativity Research Journal, 34 (2022) 2, S.145-158 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Beaty, Roger E.) ORCID (Madore, Kevin P.) ORCID (Schacter, Daniel L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-0419
DOI	10.1080/10400419.2021.1976451
Schlagwörter	Creative Writing; Memory; Recall (Psychology); Time; Cognitive Processes; Imagination; Creativity; College Students; Creative Thinking; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreatives Schreiben; Gedächtnis; Abberufung; Zeit; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Kreativität; Collegestudent; Kreatives Denken; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Previous research indicates that episodic retrieval contributes to divergent creative thinking. However, this research has relied on standard laboratory tests of divergent creative thinking, such as generating creative uses for objects; it is unknown whether episodic retrieval also contributes to domain-specific forms of creativity. Here we start to explore whether episodic retrieval contributes to content generation on one such domain-specific task: creative writing. In two experiments, we use an episodic specificity induction (ESI) that selectively impacts tasks that draw on episodic retrieval. If episodic retrieval contributes to content generation during creative writing, then ESI should selectively increase the number of episodic details that people subsequently generate on a creative writing task. In our first experiment, we found evidence that ESI increased the number of episodic details participants generated. We observed a similar, though non-significant, trend in the second experiment. These findings constitute a starting point for examining the contribution of episodic retrieval to creative writing, but additional studies will be needed to more definitively characterize the nature and extent of these contributions. (As Provided).
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