The Influence of Emotional Valence and Motivational Emotion on Creativity
Abstract: This study explored the correlation between emotion and creativity by using pictures as the stimulus for emotional priming and Alternate Uses Test as a tool for measuring creativity. A 2 (emotional valence type: positive, negative) × 2 (motivational emotion types: high-survival motivation, low-survival motivation) design was used to test the correlation between emotional valence and motivational emotion. The results showed that the main effect of emotional valence was significant. The fluency, flexibility, novelty and total score of the positive emotions group were significantly higher than those of the negative emotions group. The results also showed that the creativity fluency, flexibility and total score of the low-survival motivational emotion were significantly higher than those of the high-survival motivational emotion, and thus the main effect of motivational emotion was significant. We also realized that the interaction between emotional valence and motivational emotion was not significant. Taken together, our findings indicate that positive emotions lead to more creative activities than negative emotions. The level of creativity under low-survival motivational emotion is higher than that under high-survival motivational emotion, but there is no interaction between emotional valence and motivational emotion on creativity.
Key words: emotional valence, survival motivation, emotional pictures, creativity
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http://psybeh.tjnu.edu.cn/CN/Y2021/V19/I2/160