Clarifying the mechanism of insight process by combining behavioral experiment with computational modeling

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We investigated whether self goal setting could facilitate insight problem solving. The results showed that self goal setting disrupted insight problem solving when they were not allowed to reach the other goal state. It, however, slightly facilitated the insight problem solving if the participants were allowed to change the goal.We also investigated the relationship between explicit and implicit processes in insight problem solving. The result showed that although successful participants' solutions gradually improved over time, their warmth ratings suddenly increased just before solving the puzzle.We examined influence of social structures on knowledge acquired by societies using computer simulations. We compared four types of social networks, namely regular, random, small world, and scale free networks. When there are individual differences and people having similar beliefs tend to have close relationships with each other, the societies would acquire pareto-optimal knowledge.