Enhancing creativity: Proper body posture meets proper emotion

Hao, Ning; Xue, Hua; Yuan, Hairong; Wang, Qing; Runco, Mark A.

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.12.005

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“…Although the previous studies have found several ways to raise creative thinking (Baas et al, 2011;Davis, 2009;Hao et al, 2017;Isen et al, 1987;Oppezzo and Schwartz, 2014;Wu et al, 2016;Yamada and Nagai, 2015), the present study revealed that one of the simplest ways, eye closure, improves creativity. This finding of the present study is possibly applied in the field of education or business in the future.…”

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“…A negative mood, particularly anger, also improves creativity (Baas et al, 2011). Additionally, certain body postures and physical action improve creative thinking (Hao et al, 2017;Oppezzo and Schwartz, 2014) and observing ambiguous figures that can be interpreted in two ways, such as Rubin's vase, enhances performance in creative tasks (Wu et al, 2016). Thus, as mentioned above, various ways to facilitate creative thinking exist.…”

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‘‘Close, and ye shall find’’: eye closure during thinking enhances creativity

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Facilitation of creative thinking is an important element for innovation. It has been suggested that cognitive resources are involved in creative thinking; however, little evidence of this involvement has been found. To address this issue, the present study focuses on eye closure, which saves more cognitive resources than open eyes. Forty participants experienced both close-eyed and open-eyed conditions, and all of them were asked to generate new names for rice and tea. The results revealed that in the close-eyed condition, participants generated 1.6-times more divergent (unrestricted and flexible) ideas than in the open-eyed condition, suggesting that closing eyes during thinking enhances creativity. Our findings provide empirical evidence for the necessity of cognitive resources in creative thinking.

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“…It is possible that postural feedback effects are context dependent as proposed by several studies (e.g. Bialobrzeska & Parzuchowski, 2016;Cesario & McDonald, 2013;Hao et al, 2017;Latu et al, 2017;Turan, 2015)). According to Guinote's (2017) updated account of the approach motivation theory of power (2003), power activates people to pursue their goals and desires, and thus activates the approach system specifically in association with goal seeking.…”

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Power posture effects on approach and avoidance decisions in response to social threat

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Individuals’ opportunities for action in threatening social contexts largely depend on their social power. While powerful individuals can afford to confront aggressors and dangers, powerless individuals need others’ support and better avoid direct challenges. Here, we investigated if adopting expansive or constrictive postures, which function as social signals of power, impacts individuals’ approach and avoidance decisions in response to social threat signals using a within-subject design. Overall, participants more often chose to avoid rather than to approach angry individuals, but showed no clear approach or avoidance preference for fearful individuals. Crucially, constrictive posture considerably increased the tendency to avoid angry individuals, whereas expansive postures induced no substantial changes. This suggests that adopting power-related postures can impact action decisions in response to social threat signals. The present results emphasize the social function of power postures and are discussed in the context of the debate on the replicability of power posture effects.

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“…The epidermis itself, in the presence of an illness, can negatively affect these bodily movements, locally and systematically, as well as the entire connective system (scleroderma) [57]. Also, through somatic-visceral reflexes starting from the epidermis, the skin is able to influence the emotional and visceral behavior, and it consequently causes changes in the bodily posture [58,59,60]. …”

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New Proposal to Define the Fascial System

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At the beginning of the third millennium, we still do not have a definition of ‘fascia' recognized as valid by every researcher. This article attempts to give a new definition of the fascial system, including the epidermis, by comparing the mechanical-metabolic characteristics of the connective tissue and the skin. In fact, according to the latest classification deriving from the Fascia Nomenclature Committee, the outer skin layer is not considered as part of the fascial continuum. This article highlights the reasons for taking the functional characteristics of the tissue into consideration, rather than its mere structure. A brief discussion will address the questions as to what is considered as fascial tissue and from which embryonic germ layer the epidermis is formed. The notion that all the layers intersect will be highlighted, demonstrating that quoting precise definitions of tissue stratification in the living organism probably does not correspond to what happens in vivo. What we propose as a definition is not to be regarded as a point of arrival but as another departure.

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Enhancing creativity: Proper body posture meets proper emotion

Cited by 62 publications

References 45 publications

‘‘Close, and ye shall find’’: eye closure during thinking enhances creativity

‘‘Close, and ye shall find’’: eye closure during thinking enhances creativity

Power posture effects on approach and avoidance decisions in response to social threat

New Proposal to Define the Fascial System

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