The Effects of Embodied Emotion and Creative Thinking: Situational Regulatory Focus as Moderator

Abstract

Abstract: The experiment used a facial manipulation task to induce the embodied positive, negative emotions, set a control group, and then used the dual-task to initiate the situational regulatory focus. Subjects were asked to complete the creative thinking task in order to investigate the influence of embodied emotion and situational regulatory focus on creative thinking. The results found that:1) The scores of originality under the embodied positive emotion condition were higher than that under the control condition, and the scores of fluency and flexibility under the embodied negative emotion condition were lower than that under the control condition; 2) Promotion focus was more beneficial to creativity than was prevention focus; 3) creative thinking level may be enhanced by a match between embodied positive emotion and promotion focus and may be decreased by a match between embodied positive, negative emotion and prevention focus. The findings highlight embodied positive emotion promotes the originality of creative thinking, embodied negative emotion hinders the fluency and flexibility of creative thinking, and situational regulatory focus has a moderator effect between embodied emotion and creative thinking.

Key words: embodied emotion, creative thinking, situational regulatory focus

摘要： 采用面部肌肉控制技术诱发被试的具身积极和具身消极情绪，并设置中性控制组，然后采用双任务启动范式启动情境性调节定向，最后要求被试完成创造性思维测验，探讨具身情绪和情境性调节定向对创造性思维的影响。结果发现：具身积极情绪促进思维的独创性，具身消极情绪阻碍创造性思维，主要表现在流畅性和灵活性上；情境性促进定向被试的创造性表现好于情境性预防定向的被试；情境性调节定向在具身情绪和创造性思维关系中起调节作用，当个体处于情境性促进定向时，具身积极情绪促进创造性思维，而当个体处于情境性预防定向时，具身积极情绪和具身消极情绪均对创造性思维有阻碍作用。

关键词: 具身情绪, 创造性思维, 情境性调节定向

CLC Number:

B842.8

YAO Haijuan, WANG Jinxia, SU Qingli, BAI Xuejun. The Effects of Embodied Emotion and Creative Thinking: Situational Regulatory Focus as Moderator[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(4): 441-448.

姚海娟, 王金霞, 苏清丽, 白学军. 具身情绪与创造性思维：情境性调节定向的调节作用[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2018, 16(4): 441-448.

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