Raffaelli Quentin, Malusa Rudy, de Stefano Nadia-Anais, Andrews Eric, Grilli Matthew D, Mills Caitlin, Zabelina Darya L, Andrews-Hanna Jessica R
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Cognitive Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Creat Res J. 2024;36(3):396-412. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2023.2227477. Epub 2023 Jun 23.
Despite an established body of research characterizing how creative individuals explore their world, relatively little is known about how such individuals navigate their , especially in unstructured contexts such as periods of awake rest. Across two studies, the present manuscript tested the hypothesis that creative individuals are more engaged with their idle thoughts and more associative in the dynamic transitions between them. Study 1 captured the real-time conscious experiences of 81 adults as they voiced aloud the content of their mind moment-by-moment across a 10-minute unconstrained baseline period. Higher originality scores on a divergent thinking task were associated with less perceived boredom, more words spoken overall, more freely moving thoughts, and more loosely-associative (as opposed to sharp) transitions during the baseline rest period. In Study 2, across 2,612 participants, those who reported higher self-rated creativity also reported less perceived boredom during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time during which many people experienced unusually extended periods of unstructured free time. Overall, these results suggest a tendency for creative individuals to be more engaged and explorative with their thoughts when task demands are relaxed, raising implications for resting state functional MRI and societal trends to devalue idle time.
尽管已有大量研究描述了有创造力的个体如何探索他们的世界，但对于这些个体如何驾驭他们的思维，尤其是在诸如清醒休息期等非结构化环境中，人们了解得相对较少。在两项研究中，本论文检验了这样一个假设：有创造力的个体在空闲思维中更投入，并且在这些思维之间的动态转换中更具联想性。研究1记录了81名成年人在10分钟无约束的基线期内逐一刻意说出他们脑海中的内容时的实时有意识体验。在发散性思维任务中，更高的原创性得分与更少的无聊感、总体上更多的言语表达、更自由流动的思维以及基线休息期内更松散的联想（而非尖锐的）转换相关。在研究2中，在2612名参与者中，那些自我评定创造力较高的人在新冠疫情期间也报告了较少的无聊感，在那段时间里许多人经历了异常漫长的非结构化自由时间。总体而言，这些结果表明，当任务需求放松时，有创造力的个体倾向于更投入地探索他们的思维，这对静息态功能磁共振成像以及贬低空闲时间的社会趋势具有启示意义。
