What about false insights? Deconstructing the Aha! experience along its multiple dimensions for correct and incorrect solutions separately
Danek and Wiley: 70 participants rated difficult magic-trick problems on suddenness, certainty, surprise, pleasure, relief and drive; false insights occurred; incorrect solutions were often rated as less pleasurable and less certain; some correct solutions brought more relief; the aha is not a definitive sign of a true insight. Frontiers in Psychology 7, 2077, 2017.
Danek and Wiley: 70 participants rated difficult magic-trick problems on suddenness, certainty, surprise, pleasure, relief and drive; false insights occurred; incorrect solutions were often rated as less pleasurable and less certain; some correct solutions brought more relief; the aha is not a definitive sign of a true insight. Frontiers in Psychology 7, 2077, 2017.
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Danek, A. H., & Wiley, J. (2017). What about false insights? Deconstructing the Aha! experience along its multiple dimensions for correct and incorrect solutions separately. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 2077. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02077 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02077