Morality And Creativity On The Right? ,

It is a unsolved but interesting topic for many researchers whether there is a certain relationship between creativity and morality. The present study concluded their possible relationship which based on existed studies, and then gave a preliminary exploration for this focus by our highly developed technologies in cognitive neuroscience.Specifically speaking, the present study seem to detect neural mechanism and neural signatures of relatively high and low participants during divergent thinking problem solving by hight temporal resolution event related potentials (ERPs). The first and foremost, the study prepared 190 three-character Chinese riddles which retrievaled form Zhang's Chinese puzzles dictionary (Zhang,1990), and these conundrums were rated their understanding on a scale of 1 (extremely boring/old) to 5 (extremely interesting/novel) by 103 subjects in the preparatory experiment. About one-half of the 120 riddles were very difficult and the other halves were comparatively easy. It was not easy for participants to work out the solutions to those difficult riddles so that the insight or "Aha!" response and uncomprehended response could be elicited when they were informed the correct answer.61 students were recruited from different departments, then they were asked to complete three different task which was seem to test their cognitive ability and moral personality. As a result, they were divided into two groups, namely so-called relatively high and low moral group, each had 20 participants because other averaged subject were excluded in order to extend the significant and largest difference. And 36 of these have taken part in formal ERPs experiment. Either do not meet the averaging criteria to be tested are excluded from the formal analysis, and ultimately retained 22.The first study is a confirmative research which seems to detect the validity and reliability of the three-character riddles in eliciting insight during problem solving. The result verify our hypothesis and support the validity in insight-evoking. Therefore, the second study focused the analysis of neural signatures and electrophysiological evidence of relatively high and low participants when they solved three-character insight task. Ultimately, the result showed that, there are sharply significant difference between the amplitude of electrophysiological wave in the time windows of 150-250 ms and 430-700 ms. In other words, the study found that subjects with high moral personality scores elicited a sharp difference in the average electrode EEG between the participants with low moral personality scores. According to low arousal theory of creativity, it might imply that, relatively high morality seems to have more creativity, and at least exhibited the three-character insight problem solving in neural mechanism. Indeed, it is only a preliminary study, which need more studies tested and reexamined. Of course, it is necessary to develop more precise observed technologies.