ArticleThe Journal of creative behavior2020
Moment of Truth: Why Aha! Experiences are Correct.
Article in The Journal of creative behavior, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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- Aha! Ratings as Metacognitive Judgments.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Comparing Aha! Moments in Problem Solving and Generative Ideation.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- The white matter of Aha! moments.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Insight predicts subsequent memory via cortical representational change and hippocampal activity.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Creativity and aesthetic evaluation of AI-generated artworks: bridging problems and methods from psychology to AI.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Surprise!-Clarifying the link between insight and prediction error.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Exploring How Generating Metaphor Via Insight Versus Analysis Affects Metaphor Quality and Learning Outcomes.Cognitive science · 2024Article
- The Aha! experience is associated with a drop in the perceived difficulty of the problem.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Gestalt's Perspective on Insight: A Recap Based on Recent Behavioral and Neuroscientific Evidence.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Review
- The influence of insight on risky decision making and nucleus accumbens activation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Does Thinking in Opposites in Order to Think Differently Improve Creativity?Journal of Intelligence · 2023Review
- Insight Problem Solving Ability Predicts Reduced Susceptibility to Fake News, Bullshit, and Overclaiming.Thinking & reasoning · 2023Article
- Search and insight processes in card sorting games.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Eliciting false insights with semantic priming.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- How Difficult Was It? Metacognitive Judgments About Problems and Their Solutions After the Aha Moment.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Learning by Insight-Like Sudden Comprehension as a Potential Strategy to Improve Memory Encoding in Older Adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Effect of Dopaminergic Replacement Therapy on Creative Thinking and Insight Problem-Solving in Parkinson's Disease Patients.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Does thinking about coronavirus impact insight and analytical reasoning?Thinking skills and creativity · 2020Article
- Oculometric signature of switch into awareness? Pupil size predicts sudden insight whereas microsaccades predict problem-solving via analysis.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- The relation between state and trait risk taking and problem-solving.Psychological research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Having a sudden insight is often associated with inherent confidence, enough for Archimedes to run naked through the streets shouting "Eureka!". Recent evidence demonstrates that public displays of enthusiasm, such as the ancient polymath's, are actually supported by a higher likelihood of being correct.
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