Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for Creativity
This study examined the effects of mood and risk-taking on divergent and convergent thinking using a Q-learning computation model. The results revealed that while mood was not significantly related to divergent or convergent thinking (as creative thinking types), risk-taking exerted positive effects...
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| description | This study examined the effects of mood and risk-taking on divergent and convergent thinking using a Q-learning computation model. The results revealed that while mood was not significantly related to divergent or convergent thinking (as creative thinking types), risk-taking exerted positive effects on divergent thinking in the face of negative rewards. The results were consistent with the representational change theory in insight problem solving. Although this theory accounts directly for insight, the underlying idea of going beyond current contexts and implicit constrains could be applied to creative thinking as well. The results indeed accounted for the relevance of this theory to divergent thinking. The current study is one of the first empirical studies simultaneously examining the role of mood and risk-taking in creativity. In particular, no related studies exist that took a computational approach to estimate the relevant parameters in the framework of dynamic optimization. Our Q learning model enables to distinguish and identify the different roles of mood and risk-taking in updating Q values and making decisions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c098d4dba8a4cf78f5a6c8e434e44782022-12-21T20:48:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-01-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.610562610562Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for CreativityTsutomu HaradaThis study examined the effects of mood and risk-taking on divergent and convergent thinking using a Q-learning computation model. The results revealed that while mood was not significantly related to divergent or convergent thinking (as creative thinking types), risk-taking exerted positive effects on divergent thinking in the face of negative rewards. The results were consistent with the representational change theory in insight problem solving. Although this theory accounts directly for insight, the underlying idea of going beyond current contexts and implicit constrains could be applied to creative thinking as well. The results indeed accounted for the relevance of this theory to divergent thinking. The current study is one of the first empirical studies simultaneously examining the role of mood and risk-taking in creativity. In particular, no related studies exist that took a computational approach to estimate the relevant parameters in the framework of dynamic optimization. Our Q learning model enables to distinguish and identify the different roles of mood and risk-taking in updating Q values and making decisions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.610562/fullmoodrisk-takingdivergent and convergent thinkingrepresentational change theoryQ learning model |
| spellingShingle | Tsutomu Harada Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for Creativity Frontiers in Psychology mood risk-taking divergent and convergent thinking representational change theory Q learning model |
| title | Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for Creativity |
| title_full | Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for Creativity |
| title_fullStr | Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for Creativity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for Creativity |
| title_short | Mood and Risk-Taking as Momentum for Creativity |
| title_sort | mood and risk taking as momentum for creativity |
| topic | mood risk-taking divergent and convergent thinking representational change theory Q learning model |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.610562/full |
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