Stepping back to see the big picture: When obstacles elicit global processing.

Marguc, Janina; Förster, Jens; Kleef, Gerben A. van

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“…Indeed, any skilled activity depends upon the existence of some constraints (Csikszentmihalyi 1997;Marquc et al 2011), and human performance generally suffers in the face of too many options. In jewellery making, constraints are imposed by the materials being used, the tools, the design brief, aesthetic considerations, historical considerations and so on.…”

Section: Creativity In Dynamic Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What the Jeweller’s Hand Tells the Jeweller’s Brain: Tool Use, Creativity and Embodied Cognition

Baber

Chemero

Hall³

2017

Philos. Technol.

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The notion that human activity can be characterised in terms of dynamic systems is a well-established alternative to motor schema approaches. Key to a dynamic systems approach is the idea that a system seeks to achieve stable states in the face of perturbation. While such an approach can apply to physical activity, it can be challenging to accept that dynamic systems also describe cognitive activity. In this paper, we argue that creativity, which could be construed as a 'cognitive' activity par excellence, arises from the dynamic systems involved in jewellery making. Knowing whether an action has been completed to a 'good' standard is a significant issue in considering acts in creative disciplines. When making a piece of jewellery, there a several criteria which can define 'good'. These are not only the aesthetics of the finished piece but also the impact of earlier actions on subsequent ones. This suggests that the manner in which an action is coordinated is influenced by the criteria by which the product is judged. We see these criteria as indicating states for the system, e.g. in terms of a space of 'good' outcomes and a complementary space of 'bad' outcomes. The skill of the craftworker is to navigate this space of available states in such a way as to minimise risk, effort and other costs and maximise benefit and quality of the outcome. In terms of postphenomonology, this paper explores Ihde's humantechnology relations and relates these to the concepts developed here.Philos. Technol.

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Section: Creativity In Dynamic Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What the Jeweller’s Hand Tells the Jeweller’s Brain: Tool Use, Creativity and Embodied Cognition

Baber

Chemero

Hall³

2017

Philos. Technol.

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“…Studies have shown that people perform better at a given task when an obstacle is in their way [23], and constraints may allow people to clarify and focus on the task at hand [19]. This can already be observed to a certain degree in the cost-interaction hypothesis [2], for examplewith increased querying costs leading to stickier results [33].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Stuck in traffic

Maxwell

Azzopardi

2014

Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

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In this paper we investigate how query response delays and document download delays a↵ect user interactions within a search system. Guided by Information Foraging Theory and Search Economic Theory, five competing hypotheses relating to the behaviours of searchers in the presence of delays are considered and examined in the context of ad-hoc topic retrieval. A between-subjects laboratory study with 48 undergraduate subjects was conducted. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of four conditions that varied the type of delay experienced. When faced with query response delays, subjects did not examine more documents per query as expected. However, when the total amount of time spent per query (a combination of delay and querying time) increased, subjects did examine more documents per query. When faced with document download delays, subjects did not spent more time within documents. Subjects however did spend longer within documents when subjected to both query and document delays. We found a strong and significant correlation between query time (independent of delay) and the interactions of subjects in terms of the number of queries posed, the number of documents examined, and the depth to which subjects went. These findings contrast with previous works on how delays a↵ect search behaviour, and suggest that the theory needs to be refined to make more credible predictions relating to search behaviours.

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“…We believe that categorization flexibility is one such factor. Marguc, Förster, and van Kleef (2011) indicate that categorizing broadly is associated with integrative, global processing. We argue that high categorization flexibility consumers, when confronted with difficult-to-justify hedonic options due to the self-control challenge they pose, process information about the options in a global, multi-dimensional manner.…”

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Food categorization flexibility increases the preference for indulgent foods

Khare

Chowdhury

2015

J Consum Psychol

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Categorization flexibility, the extent of cross-categorization of objects into multiple categories, has been studied in prior research as an outcome variable. We study categorization flexibility as an independent variable and in the food domain show its influence on preference for hedonic or indulgent food items. Hedonic food items are attractive due to their tastiness but also unattractive due to their caloricity and thus consumers feel inhibited to choose them. We argue that food categorization flexibility exerts a disinhibitive influence which facilitates preference for hedonic food items. We show such a prohedonic effect (using real as well as hypothetical food items) by measuring as well as manipulating categorization flexibility and also that this effect occurs mainly for those with higher (vs. lower) inhibition for hedonic consumption: due to a prevention (vs. promotion) or due to a hyperopic (vs. myopic) psychological state. Our results suggest that while marketers of hedonic foods may improve sales by promoting more food-situation associations, consumers' health will be better served if consumers develop fewer, beneficial food-situation associations.

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Stepping back to see the big picture: When obstacles elicit global processing.

Cited by 59 publications

References 131 publications

What the Jeweller’s Hand Tells the Jeweller’s Brain: Tool Use, Creativity and Embodied Cognition

What the Jeweller’s Hand Tells the Jeweller’s Brain: Tool Use, Creativity and Embodied Cognition

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