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={Marily A Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz}, journal={Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition}, year={2014}, volume={40 4}, pages={ 1142-52 } }
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…
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