• DOI:10.1037/a0036577
Corpus ID: 11962777

Give your ideas some legs: the positive effect of walking on creative thinking.

@article{Oppezzo2014GiveYI,
  title={Give your ideas some legs: the positive effect of walking on creative thinking.},
  author={M. Oppezzo and D. Schwartz},
  journal={Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition},
  year={2014},
  volume={40 4},
  pages={
          1142-52
        }
}

• M. Oppezzo, D. Schwartz
• Published 2014
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition

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 Experiment 2, participants completed the GAU when… Expand

View on PubMed

aaalab.stanford.edu

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed