The effects of approach and avoidance motor actions on the elements of creative insight.
- R. Friedman, J. Förster
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 October 2000
The authors propose that the nonaffective bodily feedback produced by arm flexion and extension informs individuals about the processing requirements of the situation, leading to the adoption of…
How Global Versus Local Perception Fits Regulatory Focus
- J. Förster, E. Higgins
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 1 August 2005
We propose a reciprocal relation between regulatory-focus systems and global versus local processing styles—specifically, that global processing fits a promotion focus on advancement, whereas local…
Stereotype threat and performance: how self-stereotypes influence processing by inducing regulatory foci.
- Beate Seibt, J. Förster
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 2004
The authors hypothesized that activated self-stereotypes can influence the strategies of task solution by inducing regulatory foci, and showed that positive in-group stereotypes led to more creative performance whereas negative stereotype groups led to better analytical performance.
Relations between perceptual and conceptual scope: how global versus local processing fits a focus on similarity versus dissimilarity.
- J. Förster
- PsychologyJournal of experimental psychology. General
- 26 January 2009
Because important psychological variables are correlated with processing styles, in Experiments 7-9, temporal distance, a promotion focus, and high power were predicted and shown to enhance the search for similarities, whereas temporal proximity, a preventionfocus, and low power enhanced the searchFor dissimilarities.
Accessibility from active and fulfilled goals
- J. Förster, N. Liberman, E. Higgins
- Psychology
- 1 May 2005
GLOMOsys: A Systems Account of Global Versus Local Processing
- J. Förster, L. Dannenberg
- Psychology
- 26 August 2010
Within GLOMOsys (the GLObal versus LOcal processing MOdel, a systems account) we examine the functionalities of two processing systems that process information either globally or locally (looking at…
Temporal construal effects on abstract and concrete thinking: consequences for insight and creative cognition.
- J. Förster, R. Friedman, N. Liberman
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 August 2004
Six studies investigate whether and how distant future time perspective facilitates abstract thinking and impedes concrete thinking by altering the level at which mental representations are…
Speed/accuracy decisions in task performance: Built-in trade-off or separate strategic concerns?
- J. Förster, E. Higgins, A. Bianco
- Psychology
- 2003
Implicit affective cues and attentional tuning: an integrative review.
- R. Friedman, J. Förster
- PsychologyPsychological bulletin
- 1 September 2010
It is proposed that rudimentary intero- and exteroceptive stimuli may indeed become associated with the onset of arousing positive or negative emotional states and/or with appraisals that the environment is benign or threatening and thereby come to moderate the scope of attention in the absence of conscious emotional experience.
Effects of motivational cues on perceptual asymmetry: implications for creativity and analytical problem solving.
- R. Friedman, J. Förster
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 February 2005
It was found that approach, relative to avoidance-related anticipatory states, produced greater relative right (diminished relative left) hemispheric activation and this pattern of activation was reversed when approach and avoidance states were not merely anticipatory but were also emotionally arousing.
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