Unlocking creative potential: Reappraising emotional events facilitates creativity for conventional thinkers

IF 3.4 2区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.obhdp.2022.104209

Lily Yuxuan Zhu , Christopher W. Bauman , Maia J Young

引用次数: 3

Abstract

We examine the cognitive processes that underpin emotion regulation strategies and their associations with creativity. Building on theories of emotion regulation and creative cognition, we theorize that cognitive reappraisal of emotion-eliciting events is positively associated with creativity because both involve considering new approaches or perspectives. We also predict that reappraisal experience boosts creativity for people prone to thinking conventionally. Three studies support our theory by demonstrating that reappraisal improves cognitive flexibility and enhances creativity for individuals low in openness to experience, independent from the effects of emotions on creativity. Therefore, reappraisal is an effective tool to foster creativity among conventional thinkers. More broadly, the results indicate that emotion regulation processes have downstream consequences on behavior, above and beyond their effects on emotions.

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释放创造潜力:重新评估情感事件有助于传统思想家的创造力

我们研究了支撑情绪调节策略的认知过程及其与创造力的联系。在情绪调节和创造性认知理论的基础上，我们认为对情绪引发事件的认知重新评估与创造力呈正相关，因为两者都涉及考虑新的方法或观点。我们还预测，重新评估的经验会提高那些倾向于传统思维的人的创造力。三项研究支持了我们的理论，表明重新评估可以提高认知灵活性，提高经验开放性低的个体的创造力，不受情绪对创造力的影响。因此，重新评估是培养传统思想家创造力的有效工具。更广泛地说，结果表明情绪调节过程对行为有下游影响，超出其对情绪的影响。

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Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Multiple-

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8.90

自引率

4.30%

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期刊介绍： Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes publishes fundamental research in organizational behavior, organizational psychology, and human cognition, judgment, and decision-making. The journal features articles that present original empirical research, theory development, meta-analysis, and methodological advancements relevant to the substantive domains served by the journal. Topics covered by the journal include perception, cognition, judgment, attitudes, emotion, well-being, motivation, choice, and performance. We are interested in articles that investigate these topics as they pertain to individuals, dyads, groups, and other social collectives. For each topic, we place a premium on articles that make fundamental and substantial contributions to understanding psychological processes relevant to human attitudes, cognitions, and behavior in organizations. In order to be considered for publication in OBHDP a manuscript has to include the following: 1.Demonstrate an interesting behavioral/psychological phenomenon 2.Make a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the existing literature 3.Identify and test the underlying psychological mechanism for the newly discovered behavioral/psychological phenomenon 4.Have practical implications in organizational context