The role of instrumental emotion regulation in the emotions-creativity link: how worries render neurotic individuals more creative

Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition Pub Date : 2013-06-17 DOI:10.1145/2466627.2466656

A. Leung, L. Kwan, S. Liou, C. Chiu, Lin Qiu, J. C. Yong

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Based on the instrumental account of emotion regulation, the current research seeks to offer a novel perspective to the emotions-creativity debate by investigating the instrumental value of trait-consistent emotions in creativity. We hypothesize that emotions such as worry (vs. happy) are some trait-consistent experiences for neurotic individuals and experiencing these emotions can facilitate performance in a creativity task. In two studies, we found support for our hypothesis. First, individuals higher in neuroticism had a greater preference for recalling worrisome (vs. happy) events in anticipation of performing a creativity task (Study 1). Moreover, when induced to recall a worrisome (vs. happy) event, individuals higher in neuroticism had better performance in a creativity task (Study 2). These findings offer a new perspective to the controversy concerning the emotions-creativity relationship and further demonstrate the role of instrumental emotion regulation in the domain of creative performance.

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工具性情绪调节在情绪-创造力联系中的作用:焦虑如何使神经质个体更有创造力

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