Give your ideas some legs: The positive effect of walking on creative thinking.
Volume: 40, Issue: 4, Pages: 1142 - 1152
Published: Jan 1, 2014
Abstract
Four experiments demonstrate that walking boosts creative ideation in real time and shortly after. In Experiment 1, while seated and then when walking on a treadmill, adults completed Guilford's alternate uses (GAU) test of creative divergent thinking and the compound remote associates (CRA) test of convergent thinking. Walking increased 81% of participants' creativity on the GAU, but only increased 23% of participants' scores for the CRA. In...
Paper Details
Title
Give your ideas some legs: The positive effect of walking on creative thinking.
Published Date
Jan 1, 2014
Volume
40
Issue
4
Pages
1142 - 1152
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