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Do open or closed postures boost creative performance? The effects of postural feedback on divergent and convergent thinking
- Source :
- Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, American Psychological Association, 2020, ⟨10.1037/aca0000306⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2022.
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Abstract
- International audience; Can an individual’s body posture (expansive or contractive) affect their creative thinking (divergent or convergent)? Based on embodied cognition and the debate about the impact of nonverbal physical postures expressing power on psychological and behavioral outcomes, five experiments were conducted. We tested the prediction that expansive postures would have a positive effect on creativity tasks that have no right or wrong answer or optimal solution (divergent thinking), whereas contractive postures would have a positive effect on tasks with a right answer or an optimal solution (convergent thinking). As predicted, results revealed a positive effect of expansive postures on performance of creativity tasks requiring divergent thinking, such as producing original ideas (Study 1) or objects, either by combining shapes to create an original toy (Study 2) or by combining fragments to produce an original drawing (Study 3). Conversely, a positive effect of contractive postures was found on performance of insight tasks requiring convergent thinking, in which participants had to associate elements to discover a unifying and correct solution (Study 4) or overcome initial task constraints to find an optimal solution to a problem (Study 5). These findings open up new avenues for research in embodied creativity.
- Subjects :
- postural feedback
creative thinking
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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Convergent thinking
[SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology
050109 social psychology
Affect (psychology)
050105 experimental psychology
embodied creativity
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Task (project management)
power
Nonverbal communication
Developmental and Educational Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Creative thinking
Applied Psychology
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05 social sciences
Creativity
Embodied cognition
nonverbal behavior
Psychology
Divergent thinking
Cognitive psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 1931390X and 19313896
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0003fc8e29e5026c23f476bfa9618b0d