Frédéric Vallée‐Tourangeau
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The One-I Model of Creativity: A Commentary on Green et al. (2024) Open
Creativity manifests in various forms; while we see and experience creativity every day, the process that gives rise to creativity poses a challenge. To meet this challenge, Green et al. first proceed by helping us understand that a produc…
Externalizing Imagery: Exploring the Phenomenology of Outsight Open
We adapted Irving’s (2014) Image Control and Recognition Task (ICRT) to explore a phenomenon we term outsight. The ICRT is a visual synthesis task: Participants construct a mental image of an object following stepwise instructions. They ar…
Systemic Creative Problem-Solving: On the Poverty of Ideas and the Generative Power of Prototyping Open
In this paper, I argue against the prevailing cognitivist view of creativity, proposing instead a systemic approach, and illustrate how from such a systemic perspective, creative problem-solving can be investigated under laboratory conditi…
Outsight Open
The way we understand creativity in psychology is built on a fundamental asymmetry between people and objects: people have thoughts, intentions, and the ability to act, while objects lack these qualities. However, despite this distinction,…
Objects as knowledge: A case study of outsight Open
A laboratory procedure employing insight problems allows researcher to capture how new ideas are discovered or constructed. Insight problems are relatively simple riddles designed to encourage an initially incorrect interpretation of the p…
Review of: "Why the Standard Definition of Creativity Fails to Capture the Creative Act" Open
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The Democrats’ national identity dilemma: An analysis of US Democratic rhetoric in the 2020 Presidential primary campaign Open
In national elections, national identity is a great mobiliser of the electorate and candidates strive to cast themselves as embodiments of the nation. Like many conservative parties throughout the world, the Republican party in the United …
Objects as knowledge: A case study of outsight Open
Insight problems offer an interesting laboratory procedure to capture the origin of a new idea. These problems are relatively simple riddles designed to encourage an initially incorrect interpretation of the problem that leads to an impass…
Challenges of measuring empathic accuracy: A mentalizing versus experience‐sharing paradigm Open
Empathic accuracy, the ability to accurately infer the mental states of others, is essential to successful interpersonal relationships. Perceivers can interpret targets' emotional experiences by decoding facial and voice cues (mentalizing)…
Insight with stumpers: Normative solution data for 25 stumpers and a fresh perspective on the accuracy effect Open
When people solve a problem, they can do in one of two ways - analytically or through insight. There is robust evidence showing that a problem solved insightfully is more likely to be correct than one solved through analysis, the so-called…
Insight in the Kinenoetic Field Open
Insight problems offer an interesting tool to observe how new ideas are developed to solve simple but vexing problems. Research typically proceeds with so-called second order procedures where participants are prevented from interacting wit…
Cognitive Reflection Task and Stumpers Open
There is a type of riddle that Bar-Hillel, Noah and Frederick (2018) call “stumpers”. A stumper is a riddle which is initially intractable because the mental model or representation of the situation described in the riddle does not contain…
Rewilding Cognition: Complex Dynamics in Open Experimental Systems Open
Insight problems are sometimes designed to encourage an incorrect and misleading interpretation that veils a simple answer. The socks problem is one such problem: Given black socks and brown socks in a drawer mixed in a ratio of four to fi…
The Psychology of Risk Management Open
A better understanding of how human factors may shape risk perception and risk-taking is key to improve investment performance. This chapter draws on research on the psychology of risk and decision-making under uncertainty to shed light on…
Narrative Engagement and Social Cognition Open
Fiction Effects on Social Cognition: Varying Narrative Engagement with Cognitive Load
Unknitting the meshwork : interactivity, serendipity and individual differences in a word production task Open
Creative ideas emerge from a meshwork of dynamic elements.Resources internal and external to the agent configure a cognitiveecosystem that scaffolds performance. In addition, capitalizing onfortuitous external cues may trigger new ideas. W…
Cognition beyond the classical information processing model: Cognitive interactivity and the Systemic Thinking Model (SysTM) Open
In this chapter, we propose a systemic model of thinking (SysTM) to account for higher cognitive operations such as how an agent makes inferences, solves problems and makes decisions. The SysTM model conceives thinking as a cognitive proce…
Mental Arithmetic and Interactivity: the Effect of Manipulating External Number Representations on Older Children’s Mental Arithmetic Success Open
Manipulative artefacts are considered useful scaffolds of arithmetic during early years education, but their use is considered less important as children get older. Yet adult arithmetic performance often recruits artefacts to improve accur…
A Reproducible Systematic Map of the Illusory Truth Effect Open
Preregistration, stage 1 Registered Report, coding scheme, and additional materials accompanying the manuscript "A reproducible systematic map of research on the illusory truth effect".
Immersion in fictional stories and empathic accuracy: Methodological challenges and future research Open
Studies have shown that fiction-reading immediately enhances performance on tests of empathic accuracy, the ability to interpret and understand the experiences of others (for a recent meta-analysis, see Dodell-Feder & Tamir, 2018), however…
The spatio-temporal dynamics of systemic thinking Open
We argue that a radical departure from the classical information-processing model is untenable because higher-level cognition is fundamentally representation-based. However, we also argue that classical accounts of thinking put too great a…
The Effect of Concrete Wording on Truth Judgements: A Preregistered Replication and Extension of Hansen & Wänke () Open
When you lack the facts, how do you decide what is true and what is not? In the absence of knowledge, we sometimes rely on non-probative information. For example, participants judge concretely worded trivia items as more likely to be true …