{"pk":27116,"title":"Finding Creative New Ideas:Human-Centric Mindset Overshadows Mind-Wandering","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Finding creative new ideas requires both release from fixationand a productive search mindset. Recent research has shownthat messy desks, walking, and mind-wandering can lead tomore new uses for old objects. Here we show that a human-centric mindset is superior to mind-wandering for generatingmore alternative uses and more creative uses because itprovides both release from fixation and an effective searchstrategy. A human-centric mindset entails perspective-taking,and perspective-taking is likely to be an effective generalstrategy for enhancing creativity, problem-solving andinnovation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"creativity; design; mindset;"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12r2v05m","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yung-Yi","middle_name":"Juliet","last_name":"Chou","name_suffix":"","institution":"Columbia University","department":""},{"first_name":"Barbara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tversky","name_suffix":"","institution":"Columbia University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27116/galley/16752/download/"}]}