Gaining insight into the ‘Aha’ experience
Topolinski and Reber: the insight literature describes four features of the aha experience (suddenness, ease of processing, positive affect, feeling of being right); they propose a fluency account in which affect and perceived truth arise from the sudden gain in processing as the solution appears. Current Directions in Psychological Science 19(6), 402-405, 2010.
Topolinski and Reber: the insight literature describes four features of the aha experience (suddenness, ease of processing, positive affect, feeling of being right); they propose a fluency account in which affect and perceived truth arise from the sudden gain in processing as the solution appears. Current Directions in Psychological Science 19(6), 402-405, 2010.
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Topolinski, S., & Reber, R. (2010). Gaining insight into the ‘Aha’ experience. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(6), 402-405. doi:10.1177/0963721410388803 https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721410388803