{"pk":30094,"title":"An Aha! Walks into a Bar: Joke Completion as a Form of Insight Problem Solving","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The present work introduces a new insight problem task: joke\ncompletion. We found that performance and magnitude of\ninsight within it correlated with an established task: rebus\npuzzles. However, participants performed worse on and took\nlonger in joke completion problems than in their rebus\ncounterparts. Further, the distribution of reported insight was\nbimodal only for rebuses, as should be expected of an insight\nproblem. In joke completion problems, both self-estimated and\nexternally-rated joke funniness correlated with reported\ninsight. Challenging the assumption of impasse, performance\nand insight decreased as a function of trial time for both\nproblem types, with the best and most insightful solutions\nsubmitted within the first 20 seconds. While this is a\npreliminary study, we argue that it signals a promising\ndirection for the problem solving, humor, and creativity\nliteratures by providing a new approach to capture insight in a\nmanner conducive to linguistic and cognitive modeling\ntechniques.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"creativity; humor; insight; problem solving"}],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vb77924","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Alexander","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Bower","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30094/galley/19948/download/"}]}