Where Does Eureka Come From? The Effect of Unreportable Hints on the Phenomenology of Insight
Insight interests researchers given its special cognitive mechanisms and phenomenology (an Aha! experience or Eureka moment). There is a considerable amount of research on the effect of hints on performance in insight problem solving. However, only a few studies address the effect of hints on the su...
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| description | Insight interests researchers given its special cognitive mechanisms and phenomenology (an Aha! experience or Eureka moment). There is a considerable amount of research on the effect of hints on performance in insight problem solving. However, only a few studies address the effect of hints on the subjective experiences of solvers, and the picture their results provide is unclear. We analyze the effect of unreportable true and false hints on different dimensions of the Aha! experience (subjective suddenness, Aha! experience as an effect, and certainty). Using the processing fluency framework, we predict that true hints lead to more insights and stronger Aha! experience and certainty, while false hints lead to the opposite results due to the controlled inhibition of the inappropriate representation. The results showed that false hints decreased the chance of finding a correct solution. The true-hint condition did not lead to more correct solutions but made solutions feel sudden more often than the control condition. The ratings of the Aha! experience and certainty were higher for solutions obtained after true hints than after false hints. We obtained partial support for the effect of unreportable hints on “Eureka!” moments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de78a29fc928496091067a205e37441e2023-11-24T15:52:59ZengMDPI AGJournal of Intelligence2079-32002022-11-0110411010.3390/jintelligence10040110Where Does Eureka Come From? The Effect of Unreportable Hints on the Phenomenology of InsightArtur Ammalainen0Nadezhda Moroshkina1Laboratory for Cognitive Research, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 119571 Moscow, RussiaInstitute for Cognitive Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, 199034 Saint Petersburg, RussiaInsight interests researchers given its special cognitive mechanisms and phenomenology (an Aha! experience or Eureka moment). There is a considerable amount of research on the effect of hints on performance in insight problem solving. However, only a few studies address the effect of hints on the subjective experiences of solvers, and the picture their results provide is unclear. We analyze the effect of unreportable true and false hints on different dimensions of the Aha! experience (subjective suddenness, Aha! experience as an effect, and certainty). Using the processing fluency framework, we predict that true hints lead to more insights and stronger Aha! experience and certainty, while false hints lead to the opposite results due to the controlled inhibition of the inappropriate representation. The results showed that false hints decreased the chance of finding a correct solution. The true-hint condition did not lead to more correct solutions but made solutions feel sudden more often than the control condition. The ratings of the Aha! experience and certainty were higher for solutions obtained after true hints than after false hints. We obtained partial support for the effect of unreportable hints on “Eureka!” moments.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/10/4/110insightcreative problem solvingAha!-experienceanagramssemantic hintsprocessing fluency |
| spellingShingle | Artur Ammalainen Nadezhda Moroshkina Where Does Eureka Come From? The Effect of Unreportable Hints on the Phenomenology of Insight Journal of Intelligence insight creative problem solving Aha!-experience anagrams semantic hints processing fluency |
| title | Where Does Eureka Come From? The Effect of Unreportable Hints on the Phenomenology of Insight |
| title_full | Where Does Eureka Come From? The Effect of Unreportable Hints on the Phenomenology of Insight |
| title_fullStr | Where Does Eureka Come From? The Effect of Unreportable Hints on the Phenomenology of Insight |
| title_full_unstemmed | Where Does Eureka Come From? The Effect of Unreportable Hints on the Phenomenology of Insight |
| title_short | Where Does Eureka Come From? The Effect of Unreportable Hints on the Phenomenology of Insight |
| title_sort | where does eureka come from the effect of unreportable hints on the phenomenology of insight |
| topic | insight creative problem solving Aha!-experience anagrams semantic hints processing fluency |
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