Stress stimuli influence creativity during gaming through two routes: enhancing creativity via cortisol concentration and WM, and decreasing creativity via promotion-focused negative emotions¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? The employed stress stimuli influence creativity during gaming through two routes: enhancing creativity through cortisol concentration and WM and decreasing creativity by provoking promotion-focused negative emotions (frustration and anger). → Yeh 2015

Evidence¶

Yeh 2015¶

Yeh, Y.-C.; Lai, G.-J.; Lin, C. F.; Lin, C.-W.; Sun, H.-C. (2015). How stress influences creativity in game-based situations: Analysis of stress hormones, negative emotions, and working memory. Computers and Education, v.81, pp. 143-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2014.09.011

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Behavioral experimental design integrating neuroscientific techniques with 96 college students in a 90-minute game-based experiment. The abstract states that "the employed stress stimuli in ﬂuence creativity during gaming through two routes."

"the employed stress stimuli in ﬂuence creativity during gaming through two routes: enhancing creativity through cortisol concentration and WM and decreasing creativity by provoking promotion-focused negative emotions (frustration and anger)"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Creativity — outcome: instruction changes it

Appropriate challenges or stressors that increase cortisol concentration to an attentional level without provoking strong promotion-focused negative emotions should be considered when designing games aimed at teaching creativity — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
Highly activated negative emotions will influence creativity during gaming — related
Highly activated negative emotions will influence WM during gaming — related
Stress hormones will influence creativity during gaming — a broader claim this one bears on
Stress hormones will influence WM during gaming — related
Subjective negative emotions and objective cortisol responses do not consistently predict WM and creativity in game-based situations — reports the opposite
Working memory has a positive effect on creativity during gaming — related

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