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Hansika Kapoor; Sarah Rezaei; Hreem Mahadeshwar; James C. Kaufman – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Anxiety-driven counterfactual thinking can be a slippery slope. Building on the premise that both positive and negative emotions can impact creativity, the present study examines how trait anxiety, optimism, and other mental health factors like therapy experience shape outputs in divergent thinking (DT) tasks. Using an online sample (N = 647), the…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Anxiety, Concept Formation, Task Analysis
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Schuch, Stefanie; Pütz, Sebastian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The present study investigated the influence of mood state (positive vs. negative) on the cognitive control process of conflict adaptation. A task-switching paradigm was applied, allowing to assess conflict adaptation both within tasks and across tasks. A success-failure manipulation was applied for mood induction. Within-task conflict adaptation…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Conflict
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Kim, Young Kyu; Yim, Mark Yi-Cheon – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
Two studies are conducted to test how consumers respond differently in feeling nostalgic depending on age and gender. Study 1 uses narrative writing tasks to empirically test the effect of nostalgic versus nonnostalgic feelings on youthfulness by age and gender. To increase the external validity of our findings in Study 1, Study 2 replicates it…
Descriptors: Marketing, Gender Differences, Writing (Composition), Task Analysis
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Saariaho, Emmi; Anttila, Henrika; Toom, Auli; Soini, Tiina; Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
Self- and co-regulation are central elements in skillful student-teacher learning. Studies have confirmed the interrelation between positive academic emotions and student engagement in self-regulated learning. There are also indicators of student-teachers experiencing co-regulative learning activities as highly significant. Yet, we know…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response