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Does arguing make you more creative?

Eric Barker
November 17, 2011

When arguing people are more focused and have a stronger need for closure. This can produce more original solutions:

According to the traditional threat-rigidity reasoning, people in social conflict will be less flexible, less creative, more narrow-minded, and more rigid in their thinking when they adopt a conflict rather than a cooperation mental set. The authors propose and test an alternative, motivated focus account that better fits existing evidence. The authors report experimental results inconsistent with a threat-rigidity account, but supporting the idea that people focus their cognitive resources on conflict-related material more when in a conflict rather than a cooperation mental set: Disputants with a conflict (cooperation) set have broader (smaller) and more (less) inclusive cognitive categories when the domain of thought is (un)related to conflict (Experiment 1a-1b). Furthermore, they generate more, and more original competition tactics (Experiments 2-4), especially when they have low rather than high need for cognitive closure. Implications for conflict theory, for motivated information processing, and creativity research are discussed.

Source: “Mental set and creative thought in social conflict: threat rigidity versus motivated focus.” from J Pers Soc Psychol. 2008 Sep;95(3):648-61.

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Title Does arguing make you more creative?
Author Eric Barker
Date November 17, 2011 8:06 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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