ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2017
Creative ways to well-being: Reappraisal inventiveness in the context of anger-evoking situations.
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- Humor creation during efforts to find humorous cognitive reappraisals of threatening situations.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- High avoidance and low approach motivation affect cognitive reappraisal generation in the face of anger.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Creative, Antagonistic, and Angry? Exploring the Roots of Malevolent Creativity with a Real-World Idea Generation Task.The Journal of creative behavior · 2021Article
- Failure to reappraise: Malevolent creativity is linked to revenge ideation and impaired reappraisal inventiveness in the face of stressful, anger-eliciting events.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2021Article
- An Updated Evaluation of the Dichotomous Link Between Creativity and Mental Health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- More habitual physical activity is linked to the use of specific, more adaptive cognitive reappraisal strategies in dealing with stressful events.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2020Article
- Creativity is associated with a characteristic U-shaped function of alpha power changes accompanied by an early increase in functional coupling.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
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- Gender Differences in Generating Cognitive Reappraisals for Threatening Situations: Reappraisal Capacity Shields Against Depressive Symptoms in Men, but Not Women.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Affective creativity meets classic creativity in the scanner.Human brain mapping · 2018Article
- Role of Creativity in the Effectiveness of Cognitive Reappraisal.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Neuroscientific studies in the field of creativity mainly focused on tasks drawing on basic verbal divergent thinking demands. This study took a step further by investigating brain mechanisms in response to other types of creative behavior, involving more "real-life" creativity demands in the context of emotion regulation and well-being. Specifically, functional patterns of EEG alpha activity were investigated while participants were required to generate as many and as different ways as possible to reappraise presented anger-eliciting situations in a manner that reduces their anger. Cognitive reappraisal involves some of the same cognitive processes as in conventional verbal creativity tasks, inasmuch as it requires an individual to inhibit or disengage from an emotional event, to shift attention between different perspectives, and to flexibly adopt new solutions. To examine whether alpha oscillations during cognitive reappraisal are different from those during conventional creative ideation, the EEG was also assessed during performance of the Alternative Uses task, requiring individuals to generate as many and as original uses of an object as possible. While cognitive reappraisal was associated with a similar pattern of alpha power as observed in conventional verbal creative ideation, the former yielded significantly stronger alpha power increases at prefrontal sites, along with lower alpha increases at more posterior cortical sites, indicating higher cognitive control and less spontaneous imaginative thought processes in the generation of effective strategies to regulate an ongoing negative emotional state.
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