A Dual Process Account of Creative Thinking

Allen, Andrew P.; Thomas, Kevin

doi:10.1080/10400419.2011.571183

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“…The stages of creating reported were relatively parallel to the five stages suggested by Allen and Thomas (2011).…”

Section: Art-making and Emotion Regulationsupporting

confidence: 51%

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Exploring the Role of Art-Making in Recovery, Change, and Self-Understanding---An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Interviews with Everyday Creative People

Stevenson-Taylor¹,

Mansell²

2012

IJPS

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“…The stages of creating reported were relatively parallel to the five stages suggested by Allen and Thomas (2011).…”

Section: Art-making and Emotion Regulationsupporting

confidence: 51%

“…This is similar to the dissemination stage considered by Allen and Thomas (2011). Most participants' reported that sharing helped to create family bonds, reconcile failing relationships, and lead to feelings of social acceptance (e.g., Alder & Fisher, 1984;Bensimon & Gilboa, 2010).…”

Section: Art-making and Emotion Regulationmentioning

confidence: 81%

Exploring the Role of Art-Making in Recovery, Change, and Self-Understanding---An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Interviews with Everyday Creative People

Stevenson-Taylor¹,

Mansell²

2012

IJPS

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“…Recently, however, there has been a surge of experimental work supporting the view that there are in fact two intimately linked yet distinct modes of thinking, fulfilling complementary roles in cognition (Baas et al 2008, Morewedge and Kahneman 2010, Allen and Thomas 2011, Glatzeder 2011. Although there are many subtleties to the two "modes," "processes," or "systems," most authors converge on the recognition of a dichotomy between them as well as on their main characteristics: System-I could be called intuition.…”

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Dual thinking for scientists

Scheffer¹,

Bascompte²,

Bjordam³

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Recent studies provide compelling evidence for the idea that creative thinking draws upon two kinds of processes linked to distinct physiological features, and stimulated under different conditions. In short, the fast system-I produces intuition whereas the slow and deliberate system-II produces reasoning. System-I can help see novel solutions and associations instantaneously, but is prone to error. System-II has other biases, but can help checking and modifying the system-I results. Although thinking is the core business of science, the accepted ways of doing our work focus almost entirely on facilitating system-II. We discuss the role of system-I thinking in past scientific breakthroughs, and argue that scientific progress may be catalyzed by creating conditions for such associative intuitive thinking in our academic lives and in education. Unstructured socializing time, education for daring exploration, and cooperation with the arts are among the potential elements. Because such activities may be looked upon as procrastination rather than work, deliberate effort is needed to counteract our systematic bias.

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“…The other (type 2, called "reflection" in this study) is slow, deliberate, sequential, laborious, and limited in its processing capacity (Evans, 2009(Evans, , 2011Sloman, 1996;see Allen &Thomas, 2011, andDietrich, 2004 about dual accounts of creative thinking).…”

Section: Intuition Reflection and Metacognition In Compositional Thmentioning

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Inspiration and decision-making: A case study of a composer’s intuitive and reflective thought

Pohjannoro

2014

Musicae Scientiae

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This article reports a qualitative exploratory case study of a composer's compositional inspiration, thinking, and decision-making. The aim was to explore the dynamics and functions of intuitive and reflective modes of thinking, thus expanding the recent trend in composition research, which has given increasing attention to implicit, imaginative, and inspirational aspects of composition. The data of the study were collected in natural settings in the composer's work studio during the compositional process. The data comprised stimulated recall interviews, as well as all of the manuscripts that the composer wrote concerning the process under scrutiny. The findings indicate the saliency of the composer's germinal ideas into the compositional process. The composer elaborated, transcribed, and embodied his multimodal ideas, step-by-step, into musical passages of the evolving score. The process comprised two core procedures. First, compositional thinking was manifested as concrete representations, i.e., the manuscripts. Second, intuitive aspirations entered the conscious mind and subsequently opened themselves up for reflective processes. Two dilemmas were identified in defining the composer's uncertain and complex working circumstances. The strategic and ontological dimensions of compositional decision-making were identified. The study produced a thick description of what is probably the most complicated phenomenon of musical behaviour: composing outside the confines of a laboratory environment. It explicated compositional thinking as continuous and appropriate fluctuations of intuitive and reflective ideation, monitored by metacognitive function. It also presented a detailed analysis of the dynamics of problem accumulation, i.e., the way the composer decided not to decide, which originated from the composer's ill-defined working circumstances and his ethos of seeking coherence and employing constructionist aesthetics.

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A Dual Process Account of Creative Thinking

Cited by 92 publications

References 54 publications

Exploring the Role of Art-Making in Recovery, Change, and Self-Understanding---An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Interviews with Everyday Creative People

Exploring the Role of Art-Making in Recovery, Change, and Self-Understanding---An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Interviews with Everyday Creative People

Dual thinking for scientists

Inspiration and decision-making: A case study of a composer’s intuitive and reflective thought

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