Baas (2019) Flashcards
Paper’s aim
Argues that mood states that activate the individual promote creativity, e.g. happiness, anger, fear
Affect
An umbrella term, referring to subjective feeling states that include long-lasting moods, such as cheerfulness or depressive mood, as well as more specific ones, such as anger or awe
Emotions
More strongly directed toward a specific stimulus, e.g. a person, object, or event
Moods
Do not have this quality of object-directedness. It also tend to be relatively enduring and less intense
Activation level
Refers to the increased engagement of basic motivational systems to mobilise energy to sustain attention and effort toward goal-related activities
Deactivating moods
E.g. relief, sadness, and being relaxed
Motivational orientation
Another mood dimension
Approach orientation
When the individual is focused on regulating aspired goals and positive outcomes. E.g. happiness, cheerfulness
Avoidance orientation
When the individual is focused on regulating aversive stimulation and negative outcomes. E.g. relief
Happy mood
Associated with enhanced creativity. Most robust predictor of creativity of all mood states
Sadness
Not associated with more or less creativity
Angry moods
Promote people’s creativity compared with mood-neutral control conditions, as well as induced sad and relaxed moods. Seems to boost creativity early on, but its stimulating effect wears off over time with creative productivity declining faster than in those with sad or neutral moods
Induced boredom
Increased people’s performance on a creativity task. Task provided participants with the means to relieve them from their boredom.
If people are bored with the creativity task, boredom may be associated with reduced creativity
Cognitive persistence
The extent to which the individual focuses attention and effort on the task at hand. This is because these moods are activating and signal a problematic and insufficient state of affairs. Thus, they trigger systematic information processing, which reduces distractibility while promoting focused attention and task engagement
Approach-related traits and states
Associate with a broad attentional focus and promote creativity primarily because of enhanced flexibility
Avoidance-related traits and states
Associate with creativity primarily through cognitive persistence
Mood-as-input account
Proposes that the motivational implications of moods vary as a function of the situation
Task framing
Moderates the mood-creativity link. Positive moods led to more creativity on a creativity task when the task was framed as enjoyable and intrinsically rewarding and to less creativity when the task was framed as serious and when performance standards were emphasised
Personality trait behavioural activation
Describes the tendency to engage in goal-directed efforts and to experience cheerful feelings when being exposed to cues of impending reward. People scoring high on this trait are more approach-oriented and tend to experience more joy and happiness in general, as well as anger when goal progress is frustrated
Emotional intelligence
The ability to effectively control and alter one’s affective state, as well as intentionally harness and use affective states and information to meet situational requirements
