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Experimental Psychology (Russia)
2014. Vol. 7, no. 4, 37–51
ISSN: 2072-7593 / 2311-7036 (online)

Cognitive and affective mechanisms of creative problems solving facilitation by humor

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S.Y. Korovkin, О.S. Nikiforova

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Abstract

The mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of facilitating small creative (insight) problems by humor were studied in a series of experiments. The existence of the phenomenon of comic facilitation of finding the insight tasks solutions was confirmed. A theoretical model is proposed and the role of cognitive and affective mechanisms in the phenomenon of facilitation is analyzed. Specifically, the role of the affective component of humor in facilitation was confirmed. The role of conflict and displacement of cognitive schemes in the affective mechanisms of facilitation was specified.

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Keywords: thinking, humo, problem solving, insight, creative task, facilitation

Journal rubric: Cognitive Psychology

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Korovkin S.Y., Nikiforova О.S. Cognitive and affective mechanisms of creative problems solving facilitation by humor. Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2014. Vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 37–51. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Sergey Y. Korovkin, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor of the Department of General Psychology, P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7890-4366, e-mail: korovkin_su@list.ru

Оlga S. Nikiforova, Student, P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia, e-mail: weis1993@mail.ru

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