I want to be creative: Exploring the role of hedonic contingency theory in the positive mood-cognitive flexibility link
I want to be creative: Exploring the role of hedonic contingency theory in the positive mood-cognitive flexibility link
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.94.2.94.2.214
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发表时间：
2008-02-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
McCrea, Sean M.
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作者：
Hirt, Edward R.;Devers, Erin E.;McCrea, Sean M.
三项研究探讨了享乐权变理论作为积极情绪和认知灵活性之间联系的解释的作用。研究一调查了参与者在快乐、悲伤或中性情绪下活动选择的决定因素。与享乐权变理论相一致，快乐的参与者在他们的偏好评级中更重视创造力的潜力以及任务的愉快性。在研究2中，参与者被给予一个中性或情绪威胁的项目生成任务来执行。结果表明，快乐的参与者表现出更大的认知灵活性在所有情况下，当面临一个潜在的情绪威胁的任务，快乐的参与者能够创造性地转换任务，以保持积极的情绪和兴趣。最后，研究3操纵了参与者的情绪可以或不能改变的信念。结果复制了标准的积极情绪增加认知灵活性的影响，在非情绪冻结条件下，但没有情绪对创造力的影响被发现在情绪冻结条件。这些研究表明，享乐权变理论可能是积极情绪-认知灵活性联系背后的一个重要贡献机制。
Three studies explored the role of hedonic contingency theory as an explanation for the link between positive mood and cognitive flexibility. Study I examined the determinants of activity choice for participants in happy, sad, or neutral moods. Consistent with hedonic contingency theory, happy participants weighted potential for creativity as well as the pleasantness of the task more heavily in their preference ratings. In Study 2, participants were given either a neutral or mood-threatening item generation task to perform. Results illustrated that happy participants exhibited greater cognitive flexibility in all cases; when confronted with a potentially mood-threatening task, happy participants were able to creatively transform the task so as to maintain positive mood and interest. Finally, Study 3 manipulated participants' beliefs that moods could or could not be altered. Results replicated the standard positive mood-increased cognitive flexibility effect in the nonmood-freezing condition, but no effects of mood on creativity were found in the mood-freezing condition. These studies indicate that the hedonic contingency theory may be an important contributing mechanism behind the positive mood-cognitive flexibility link.