The Emotion And Time Pressure Effects On Creative Problem Solving In Operation And Management Scenanos

The development history of human is a development of creative research history. Creative thinking generally refers to the conceptual work to develop new field. Creative thinking ability is so special and it is inseparable with existing knowledge. On the basis of existing knowledge, it could carry out imagination, processing and solve problems in a whole new way. The Prototype Heuristic Theory points out when people solve problems, they will extract previous knowledge and experiences. The prototypical knowledge means the key heuristic methods to solving current problem. If individual face a creative problem needed to be solved, there are two important hinges, include activate the appropriate prototype as well as get inspired information from the prototype. The Prototype Heuristic Theory has been tested and has a high ecological validity.We attempt to investigate the influence of creative thinking in problem solving between the valences of emotion and time pressure according to the prototype heuristic theory. There are two opposite theories of the emotional effect on creativity,"Promotion hypothesis" and "inhibition hypothesis". Meanwhile, the time pressure is an important factor affecting the creativity and it has long been the consensus of many scholars, but there are no common concepts about the relationship between time pressure and creativity. So it is necessary to carry on more related research.Based on prototype elicitation theory, select experimental materials from The Experimental Material Database for Creative Thinking in Operation and Management Scenarios, explores how the emotion and time pressure effect creative problem solving in management environment. The study includes three experiments. In the first one,30items from the "experimental material" are chosen to be experimental material. Different emotions are induced by means of the Chinese Affective Pictures System (CAPS). The experiment follows the paradigm of one-on-one "learning-test", with emotional valence (positive, negative or neutral) as independent variables and problem solving accuracy as dependent variable. This research discusses that how the emotional variables effect creative problem solving in the operation and management scenarios.The time pressure (no time pressure/time pressure) is leaded into the second experimental. Firstly, a pre-experiment is conducted to determine the time limited term under time pressure condition. Emotion states are evoked by presenting emotional images, induce a sense of time pressure through instruction and impose a time limit on the time pressure group. The second experiment also follows one-to-one "leam-test" paradigm, and we investigated the impact of the two variables (emotion, time pressure) on business creative management situations. Emotion pictures are correspondence with the prototype materials and test scenarios. The main conclusions are as follows:1) Evoked emotional states have a significant influence on creative problem solving in the operation and management scenarios. The positive emotional group get the highest score, the neutral condition is the second, the negative condition is the lowest. The positive mood has promoter action to the creative question solution and negative emotion has the inhibitory action, but both the positive/negative emotion groups have no significant difference while contrast to neutral conditions.2) The time pressure has a remarkably impact on creative problem solving in the operation and management scenarios, and no time pressure group get significantly higher correct rate than the time pressure group.3) Notable interaction between emotion and time pressure has been discovered in the context of business management. Under no time pressure conditions, the difference between three emotion conditions is significant that positive emotion group’s accuracy is much better than the negative emotion conditions. And there is no significant between positive emotions and neutral emotion conditions, as well as negative emotion conditions and neutral emotion conditions. Under time pressure conditions, statistically significant difference is found between the positive emotion conditions and negative conditions, the same as between the positive emotion conditions and neutral conditions. Moreover, the negative emotion groups have no significant difference with the neutral conditions.