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  1. (1 other version)Serendipity Science.Samantha Copeland, Wendy Ross & Martin Sand (eds.) - 2023 - Cham: Springer.
    Serendipity is fundamental to science. This quirky and intriguing phenomenon permeates across scientific disciplines, including the medical sciences, psychological sciences, management and organizational sciences, innovation science, philosophy and library and information sciences. Why is it so ubiquitous? Because of what it facilitates and catalyzes: scientific discoveries from velcro to Viagra, innovation of all forms, unexpected encounters of useful information, novel and important ideas, and deep reflection on how we, as individuals, organizations, communities and societies can take leaps forwards by seizing (...)
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  • The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck.Christian Busch (ed.) - 2020 - New York, USA: Penguin.
    Good luck isn’t just chance—it can be learned and leveraged—and The Serendipity Mindset explains how you can use serendipity to make life better at work, at home—everywhere. Many of us believe that the great turning points and opportunities in our lives happen by chance, that they’re out of our control. Often we think that successful people—and successful companies and organizations—are simply luckier than the rest of us. Good fortune—serendipity—just seems to happen to them. Is that true? Or are some people (...)
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  • The contributions of convergent thinking, divergent thinking, and schizotypy to solving insight and non-insight problems.Margaret E. Webb, Daniel R. Little, Simon J. Cropper & Kayla Roze - 2017 - Thinking and Reasoning 23 (3):235-258.
    The ability to generate diverse ideas is valuable in solving creative problems ; yet, however advantageous, this ability is insufficient to solve the problem alone and requires the ability to logically deduce an assessment of correctness of each solution. Positive schizotypy may help isolate the aspects of divergent thinking prevalent in insight problem solving. Participants were presented with a measure of schizotypy, divergent and convergent thinking tasks, insight problems, and non-insight problems. We found no evidence for a relationship between schizotypy (...)
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  • Causal relational problem solving in toddlers.Mariel K. Goddu, Eunice Yiu & Alison Gopnik - 2025 - Cognition 254 (C):105959.
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  • Becoming Attuned.Christian Busch - 2020 - In The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck. New York, USA: Penguin. pp. 1-45.
    Breaking Down the Barriers to Serendipity Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ALLEN SAUNDERS, AMERICAN WRITER, JOURNALIST, AND CARTOONIST.
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  • “Aha!” is stronger when preceded by a “huh?”: presentation of a solution affects ratings of aha experience conditional on accuracy.Margaret E. Webb, Simon J. Cropper & Daniel R. Little - 2019 - Thinking and Reasoning 25 (3):324-364.
    Insight has been investigated under the assumption that participants solve insight problems with insight processes and/or experiences. A recent trend has involved presenting participants with the solution and analysing the resultant experience as if insight has taken place. We examined self-reports of the aha experience, a defining aspect of insight, before and after feedback, along with additional affective components of insight (e.g., pleasure, surprise, impasse). Classic insight problems, compound remote associates, and non-insight problems were randomly interleaved and presented to participants. (...)
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  • The importance of chance and interactivity in creativity.David Kirsh - 2014 - Pragmatics and Cognition 22 (1):5-26.
    Individual creativity is standardly treated as an ‘internalist’ process occurring solely in the head. An alternative, more interactionist view is presented here, where working with objects, media and other external things is seen as a fundamental component of creative thought. The value of chance interaction and chance cueing — practices widely used in the creative arts — is explored briefly in an account of the creative method of choreographer Wayne McGregor and then more narrowly in an experimental study that compared (...)
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  • On Bayesian problem-solving: helping Bayesians solve simple Bayesian word problems.Miroslav Sirota, Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau & Marie Juanchich - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  • Genetic influences on insight problem solving: the role of catechol-O-methyltransferase gene polymorphisms.Weili Jiang, Siyuan Shang & Yanjie Su - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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  • How to Detect Insight Moments in Problem Solving Experiments.Ruben E. Laukkonen & Jason M. Tangen - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Insightful Imagery is Related to Working Memory Updating.Edward Nęcka, Piotr Żak & Aleksandra Gruszka - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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  • Paving the Way to Eureka—Introducing “Dira” as an Experimental Paradigm to Observe the Process of Creative Problem Solving.Frank Loesche, Jeremy Goslin & Guido Bugmann - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
    ‘Dira’ is a novel experimental paradigm to record combinations of behavioural and metacognitive measures for the creative process. This task allows assessing chronological and chronometric aspects of the creative process directly and without a detour through creative products or proxy phenomena. In a study with 124 participants we show that (a.) people spend more time attending to selected versus rejected potential solutions, (b.) there is a clear connection between behavioural patterns and self-reported measures, (c.) the reported intensity of Eureka experiences (...)
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  • The Association of DRD2 with Insight Problem Solving.Shun Zhang & Jinghuan Zhang - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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  • Assessing miserly information processing: An expansion of the Cognitive Reflection Test.Maggie E. Toplak, Richard F. West & Keith E. Stanovich - 2014 - Thinking and Reasoning 20 (2):147-168.
    The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT; Frederick, 2005) is designed to measure the tendency to override a prepotent response alternative that is incorrect and to engage in further reflection that leads to the correct response. It is a prime measure of the miserly information processing posited by most dual process theories. The original three-item test may be becoming known to potential participants, however. We examined a four-item version that could serve as a substitute for the original. Our data show that it (...)
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  • The temporal dynamics of insight problem solving – restructuring might not always be sudden.Merim Bilalić, Mario Graf, Nemanja Vaci & Amory H. Danek - 2019 - Thinking and Reasoning 27 (1):1-37.
    Insight problems are likely to trigger an initial, inappropriate mental representation, which needs to be restructured in order to find the solution. Despite the widespread theoretical assumption t...
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  • The Effect of Working Memory Updating Ability on Spatial Insight Problem Solving: Evidence From Behavior and Eye Movement Studies.Qiang Xing, Zheyi Lu & Jing Hu - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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  • How Working Memory Provides Representational Change During Insight Problem Solving.Sergei Korovkin, Ilya Vladimirov, Alexandra Chistopolskaya & Anna Savinova - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Ego depletion improves insight.Marci S. DeCaro & Charles A. Van Stockum - 2017 - Thinking and Reasoning 24 (3):315-343.
    ABSTRACTInitial acts of self-control can reduce effort and performance on subsequent tasks – a phenomenon known as ego depletion. Ego depletion is thought to undermine the capacity or willingness to engage executive control, an important determinant of success for many tasks. We examined whether ego depletion improves performance on a task that favours less executive control: insight problem solving. In two experiments, participants completed an ego-depletion manipulation or a non-depleting control condition followed by an insight problem-solving task. Participants in the (...)
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  • Emotion-based learning: insights from the Iowa Gambling Task.Oliver H. Turnbull, Caroline H. Bowman, Shanti Shanker & Julie L. Davies - 2014 - Frontiers in Psychology 5.
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  • Explanations in the wild.Justin Sulik, Jeroen van Paridon & Gary Lupyan - 2023 - Cognition 237 (C):105464.
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  • Accident and agency: a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving.Wendy Ross & Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau - 2022 - Thinking and Reasoning 28 (4):487-528.
    Problem solving in a materially rich environment requires interacting with chance. Sixty-four participants were invited to solve 5-letter anagrams presented as movable tiles in conditions that either allowed the participants to move the tiles as they wished or only allowed random shuffling (without rearranging the tiles post shuffling) thus contrasting pure luck with an interactive model. We hypothesised that shuffling would break unhelpful mental sets and introduce beneficial unplanned problem-solving trajectories. However, participants performed significantly worse when shuffling, which suggests luck (...)
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  • Connect 4: A Novel Paradigm to Elicit Positive and Negative Insight and Search Problem Solving.Gillian Hill & Shelly M. Kemp - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Stumpers: an annotated compendium.Maya Bar-Hillel - 2021 - Thinking and Reasoning 27 (4):536-566.
    1. Stumpers, as defined here, are riddles so simple that kids can solve and appreciate them – yet so elusive that even intelligent adults can be completely stumped by them. Example: Alex is Bobbie’...
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