| Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas. | |
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PMID: 20652087 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Previous research has characterized insight as the product of internal processes, and has thus investigated the cognitive and motivational processes that immediately precede it. In this research, however, we investigate whether insight can be catalyzed by a cultural artifact, an external object imbued with learned meaning. Specifically, we exposed participants to an illuminating lightbulb - an iconic image of insight - prior to or during insight problem-solving. Across four studies, exposing participants to an illuminating lightbulb primed concepts associated with achieving an insight, and enhanced insight problem-solving in three different domains (spatial, verbal, and mathematical), but did not enhance general (non-insight) problem-solving. |
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Michael L Slepian; Max Weisbuch; Abraham M Rutchick; Leonard S Newman; Nalini Ambady |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE |
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Title: Journal of experimental social psychology Volume: 46 ISSN: 0022-1031 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2010 Jul |
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Created Date: 2010-7-23 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0045332 Medline TA: J Exp Soc Psychol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 696-700 Citation Subset: - |
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Tufts University. |
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F32 MH078350-03//NIMH NIH HHS |
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