The Unconscious Tug-of-War: Exploring the Effect of Stimulus Selection Bias on Creative Problem Solving with Multiple Unconscious Stimuli.
creative problem solving
multiple unconscious influences
remote association test
unconscious priming
unconscious processing bias
Journal
Psychology research and behavior management
ISSN: 1179-1578
Titre abrégé: Psychol Res Behav Manag
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 101514563
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
27
05
2023
accepted:
19
09
2023
medline:
4
10
2023
pubmed:
4
10
2023
entrez:
4
10
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This study innovatively investigated the potential selection bias involved in processing multiple subliminal stimuli during creative problem-solving (CPS). It addresses the existing gap in specialized research on how the handling of multiple unconscious stimuli influences higher-order cognitive processes, particularly creativity. The study utilized a masked priming paradigm and a remote association task (RAT). Two experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 presented two stimuli simultaneously, with one being the correct answer, to examine whether there was a bias in the location of subliminal stimuli. In Experiment 2, two stimuli were presented sequentially, with one serving as the answer, to investigate whether there was a temporal bias in unconscious processing. Our findings revealed that when solving easy RATs, subliminal stimuli presented on the left side had a negative priming effect compared to the right side. The results revealed that unconscious processing of subliminal stimuli enhanced performance on difficult CPS. Additionally, a temporal bias was observed, with more recent subliminal stimuli having a stronger effect than earlier stimuli. Unconscious processing can improve CPS, especially for difficult tasks, and there is a bias towards processing stimuli on the left and more recently presented stimuli. These findings contribute to our understanding of unconscious processing, particularly the processing of multiple subliminal stimuli in CPS, and provide insights into the biases that exist in unconscious processing.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37790727
doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S420942
pii: 420942
pmc: PMC10544007
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
3987-4002Informations de copyright
© 2023 Liu et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest/competing interests for this work.
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