What can you do with a bottle and a hanger? Students with high cognitive flexibility give more ideas in the presence of ambient noise
Mones and Massonnie, Thinking Skills and Creativity 46, 2022, 101116. 42 undergraduate adults did a Dimensional Change Card Sort and an Alternative Uses Task in silence and with ambient noise through headphones; on average more and more original ideas with noise; higher flexibility went with more ideas in noise.
Mones and Massonnie, Thinking Skills and Creativity 46, 2022, 101116. 42 undergraduate adults did a Dimensional Change Card Sort and an Alternative Uses Task in silence and with ambient noise through headphones; on average more and more original ideas with noise; higher flexibility went with more ideas in noise.
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Mones, P., & Massonnié, J. (2022). What can you do with a bottle and a hanger? Students with high cognitive flexibility give more ideas in the presence of ambient noise. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 46, 101116. doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101116 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101116