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| Title |
Creative mood swings: divergent and convergent thinking affect mood in opposite ways
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| Published in |
Psychological Research, June 2011
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00426-011-0358-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Soghra Akbari Chermahini, Bernhard Hommel |
| Abstract |
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 effect. This pattern suggests that thought processes and mood are systematically related but the type of relationship is process-specific. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 265 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2% |
| Austria | 2 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 252 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 61 | 23% |
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 32 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 8% |
| Researcher | 19 | 7% |
| Other | 41 | 15% |
| Unknown | 58 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 112 | 42% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 20 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 40 | 15% |
| Unknown | 62 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 February 2023.
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#8,908
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