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1 - Experimental Methods in the Study of Emotions and Creativity

from Part I - Methods in the Study of Creativity and Emotions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2023

By
Matthijs Baas
Edited by
Zorana Ivcevic ,
Jessica D. Hoffmann  and
James C. Kaufman
Zorana Ivcevic
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Jessica D. Hoffmann
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
James C. Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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Summary

Creativity researchers often use experiments to better understand the relation between emotion and creativity. This requires the effective induction of emotional states and suitable measures of creativity. This chapter reviews the requirements and possibilities for the design of experiments that examine the effect of emotion on creativity. After briefly reviewing the terms affect, mood, and emotions, this chapter describes and evaluates existing affect elicitation procedures, along with general methodological considerations. This chapter also briefly discusses how the reversed link can be studied using experimental research: How creative thinking may alter affective experience. In doing so, this chapter provides methodological and practical guidelines for designing experimental research into the relation between emotion and creativity.

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experimental methodmood inductionaffectmoodemotions
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The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions , pp. 11 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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