Studies on the Relationship Between Sour Taste and Creativity

Ke ZHANG; Xiumin DU; Liyan LI; Xuehan ZHANG; Haixia ZHAO

doi:10.12139/j.1672-0628.2023.06.013

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2023 , Vol. 21 >Issue 6: 815 - 823

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12139/j.1672-0628.2023.06.013

Studies on the Relationship Between Sour Taste and Creativity

Ke ZHANG ,
Xiumin DU ,
Liyan LI ,
Xuehan ZHANG ,
Haixia ZHAO

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1. School of Education, Hebei University, Baoding 071002
2. School of Management, Hebei University, Baoding 071002

Received date: 2021-12-15

Online published: 2024-01-24

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The purpose of studies was to examine the relationship between sour taste and creativity from the aspects of creative personality and creative thinking. Study 1 used the zero-acquaintance personality judgment task to explore the effect of taste preference on creative personality judgment through behavioral experiment method. Study 2 used questionnaires to explore the relationship between liking sour taste and creative thinking, as well as the mediating role of risk-taking tendency between the two. Study 3 explored the effect of drinking sour water on creative thinking through behavioral experiment method. The results showed that: 1) people who stated a preference for sour taste, were considered to be the individuals with high scores on risk-taking tendency and creative personality; 2) liking sour taste positively predicted creative thinking, between which risk-taking tendency played the mediating role; 3) drinking sour water promoted the originality of creative thinking. These results suggest a strong relationship between sour taste and creativity.

Key words： sour taste; risk-taking tendency; creativity; creative personality; creative thinking

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Ke ZHANG , Xiumin DU , Liyan LI , Xuehan ZHANG , Haixia ZHAO . Studies on the Relationship Between Sour Taste and Creativity[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2023 , 21(6) : 815 -823 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2023.06.013

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