Creative mood swings: divergent and convergent thinking affect mood in opposite ways
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Creative mood swings: divergent and convergent thinking affect mood in opposite ways
Increasing evidence suggests that emotions affect cognitive processes. Recent approaches have also considered the opposite: that cognitive processes might affect people's mood. Here we show that performing and, to a lesser degree, preparing for a creative thinking task induce systematic mood swings: Divergent thinking led to a more positive mood, whereas convergent thinking had the opposite eff...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0340-0727,1430-2772
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-011-0358-z