Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 353-362.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.03.06

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The Effects of Cognitive Inhibition on Scientific Creativity and Artistic Creativity

YAO Haijuan1, TONG Na1, ZHANG Shanshan2, GONG Yanbin3   

  1. 1. School of Law, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin 300134;
    2. School of Vocational Education, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222;
    3. College of International Education Exchange, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024
  • Published:2021-05-18

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Abstract: Two experiments were conducted to explore the effects of cognitive inhibition on scientific creativity and artistic creativity. In this study, participants were arranged to complete Simon tasks with different difficulty levels (the proportion of inconsistent trials was 70% or 10%) to consume their resources for manipulating the inhibition level of participants, and Flanker task was conducted to evaluate the change of inhibition ability. Then, scientific creativity test was administered as the measurement of scientific creativity in experiment 1, while the collage task was administered as the measurement of artistic creativity in experiment 2. The results showed that:(1) in the scientific creativity test, the fluency and flexibility scores of high inhibition level group were significantly higher than those of the low inhibition level group; (2) in the collage task, the scores of creativity, cuteness, comprehensive impression and the total score of the low inhibition level group were significantly higher than those of the high inhibition level group. It was concluded that the cognitive inhibition of high level promoted scientific creativity, while the low level of cognitive inhibition promoted artistic creativity, cognitive inhibition had an effect on the separation of scientific creativity and artistic creativity.

Key words: scientific creativity, artistic creativity, cognitive inhibition

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