AUTHOR=Schweizer T. Sophie , Schmalenberger Katja M. , Eisenlohr-Moul Tory A. , Mojzisch Andreas , Kaiser Stefan , Funke Joachim TITLE=Cognitive and Affective Aspects of Creative Option Generation in Everyday Life Situations JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=7 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01132 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01132 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Which factors influence a human being’s ability to develop new perspectives and be creative? This ability is pivotal for any context in which new cognitions are required, such as innovative endeavors in science and art, or psychotherapeutic settings. In this article, we seek to bring together two research programs investigating the generation of creative options: On the one hand, research on option generation in the decision-making literature and, on the other hand, cognitive and clinical creativity research. Previous decision-making research has largely neglected the topic of generating creative options. Experiments typically provided participants with a clear set of options to choose from, but everyday life situations are less structured and allow countless ways to react. Before choosing an option, agents have to self-generate a set of options to choose from. Such