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Direct linkDjikic, Maja; Oatley, Keith; Moldoveanu, Mihnea C. – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
The need for cognitive closure has been found to be associated with a variety of suboptimal information processing strategies, leading to decreased creativity and rationality. This experiment tested the hypothesis that exposure to fictional short stories, as compared with exposure to nonfictional essays, will reduce need for cognitive closure. One…
Descriptors: Literature, Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education
