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

我们研究了自我目标设置是否能促进顿悟问题解决。结果表明，当被试不被允许达到其他目标状态时，自我目标设置会干扰顿悟问题解决。然而，如果允许被试改变目标，则会略微促进顿悟问题解决。我们还考察了顿悟问题解决中外显和内隐过程的关系。结果表明，虽然成功的参与者的解决方案随着时间的推移逐渐改善，但他们的温暖评级在解决难题之前突然增加。我们使用计算机模拟来研究社会结构对社会获得知识的影响。我们比较了四种类型的社交网络，即规则，随机，小世界和无标度网络。当存在个体差异时，具有相似信念的人们往往彼此关系密切，社会将获得帕累托最优知识。

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.