Does Episodic Retrieval Contribute to Creative Writing? An Exploratory Study.

Autor: van Genugten RDI; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA., Beaty RE; Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA., Madore KP; Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA., Schacter DL; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Creativity research journal [Creat Res J] 2022; Vol. 34 (2), pp. 145-158. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Sep 13.
DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2021.1976451
Abstrakt: Previous research indicates that episodic retrieval contributes to divergent creative thinking. However, this research has relied on standard laboratory tests of divergent creative thinking, such as generating creative uses for objects; it is unknown whether episodic retrieval also contributes to domain-specific forms of creativity. Here we start to explore whether episodic retrieval contributes to content generation on one such domain-specific task: creative writing. In two experiments, we use an episodic specificity induction (ESI) that selectively impacts tasks that draw on episodic retrieval. If episodic retrieval contributes to content generation during creative writing, then ESI should selectively increase the number of episodic details that people subsequently generate on a creative writing task. In our first experiment, we found evidence that ESI increased the number of episodic details participants generated. We observed a similar, though non-significant, trend in the second experiment. These findings constitute a starting point for examining the contribution of episodic retrieval to creative writing, but additional studies will be needed to more definitively characterize the nature and extent of these contributions.
Competing Interests: Disclosure of interest The authors report no conflict of interest.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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