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Direct linkHansika Kapoor; Sarah Rezaei; Hreem Mahadeshwar; James C. Kaufman – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Anxiety-driven counterfactual thinking can be a slippery slope. Building on the premise that both positive and negative emotions can impact creativity, the present study examines how trait anxiety, optimism, and other mental health factors like therapy experience shape outputs in divergent thinking (DT) tasks. Using an online sample (N = 647), the…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Anxiety, Concept Formation, Task Analysis
