Effect Of Positive Emotion And Information Exposure On Creativity

As an important psychological function, emotion affects our psychologicalactivities,especially having effects on cognition. As a result, it becomes one of hotresearches today. Russ suggested in his research that emotional states can makecognitive processes practised associated with creativity. Empirical studies found thatemotional states affect the process and the degree of information processing (Isen,1990). Researches found that positive emotions can produce more links in memoriesof the material than neutral and negative emotions (Isen,1985; Isen, Shalker, Clark,&Karp,1978; Teasdale&Fogarty,1979). Wider positive emotional state to activate thememory node, and have a wider concept. A series of studies of Isen and Daubman hadfound that the subjects in the state of positive emotions tended to produce moreclassification. Another study found that subjects under the condition of positiveemotions produce more unusual words than in neutral conditions. In cognitiveorganization model, psychological concept is described as a node, the contact betweenthem is called the links (Collins&Loftus,1975). According to the information-processing model, the activation of nodes or create behavior influence the linksbetween them.Previous research from polar research of its effect on creativity, less careful tostudy the effect of emotions of the same polarity for creativity, given the positiveemotion on cognitive positive impact, this study sought to investigate whetherpositive emotions and information exposure to influence creativity. According toSmith and Ellsworth (1985), the six dimensions of emotional dividing method, thepositive emotions are divided into high certainty emotion represented by happinessand low certainty emotion represented by hope, experiments under two differentpositive emotions uncertainty information exposure effect on creativity. Previousresearch found that processing (information processing) on the threshold of consciousness is much more convergence, unconscious processing (informationprocessing) under the threshold more divergent (Dijksterhuis&Meurs,2006),therefore the experiment2under two different positive emotions uncertaintyinformation exposure and length influence on creativity.This research adopts the random sampling method, the experiment the object ofstudy of99college students, using2(hope and happy) x2(effective information,ineffective information) two factors mixed experimental design, positive emotionsbetween the participants, information exposure within the participants in design,including information exposed using Latin square processing, information disclosureunder different emotions on creativity and the impact of each dimension. Lab2subjects for198college students, using2x2mixed experimental design, two factorsrespectively examine hope mood and happy mood, information exposure and length’sinfluence on creativity, including information disclosure as subjects, the length oftime between subjects design, information exposure using Latin square processing,respectively examine information exposure under two kinds of positive emotionalstates and duration of creativity and the impact of each dimension. Research mainlyUSES the independent sample T test and multivariate analysis of variance, simpleeffect analysis, statistical methods, such as main research conclusion is as follows:1. The information exposed edges significantly on creativity fluency, flexibility,originality significant main effect, no significant main effect on creativity scores,positive emotions no significant main effect on the creativity and its each dimension.Embodied in: effectively exposed individual information fluency is higher than theinvalid information exposed individuals, effective individual information exposureflexibility is higher than the invalid information exposure, invalid informationexposure of individual creativity is higher than the effective information exposedindividuals.2. Information exposure and positive emotion interaction exists in the original.Embodied in: under hope mood state, the invalid information exposure of individualcreativity is higher than the effective information exposed individuals. Under happymood state, the invalid information exposed individuals originality of individuals was obviously higher than that of effective information.3. Under the hope emotional state, information exposure and threshold interactionexists in the original. Embodied in: on the threshold conditions, invalid informationexposure of individual creativity is higher than the effective information exposedindividuals; Under the threshold condition, the invalid information exposure ofindividual ingenuity of individuals was obviously higher than that of effectiveinformation.4. In the happy mood state, information exposure and threshold interaction exists inthe flexibility. Embodied in: on the threshold conditions, effective individualinformation exposure flexibility is higher than the invalid information disclosure;Under the threshold conditions, effective information and flexibility of exposedindividuals was obviously higher than that of exposed individuals invalid information.