{"id":87,"date":"2010-12-14T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/12\/14\/comedy-positive-thinking-and-imaginative-solutions-ny-times-tracing-the-spark-of-creative-problem-solving\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T19:00:52","slug":"comedy-positive-thinking-and-imaginative-solutions-ny-times-tracing-the-spark-of-creative-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2010\/12\/14\/comedy-positive-thinking-and-imaginative-solutions-ny-times-tracing-the-spark-of-creative-problem-solving\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: &quot;Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving&quot;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/TQc1m_AcnwI\/AAAAAAAABSQ\/E_utdyDD4No\/s1600\/370px-Thalia_sarcophagus_Louvre_Ma475.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_WmkrvspHR7g\/TQc1m_AcnwI\/AAAAAAAABSQ\/E_utdyDD4No\/s640\/370px-Thalia_sarcophagus_Louvre_Ma475.jpg\" width=\"393\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a title=\"Thalia (muse)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thalia_(muse)\">Thalia<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Muse\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muse\">muse<\/a>\u00a0of comedy, gazing upon a comic mask (detail from\u00a0<i>Muses&#8217; Sarcophagus<\/i>)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\u200e&#8221;Those with positive moods, turn out to be more likely to solve the puzzles with sudden insight than with trial and error.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;students solved word-association puzzles after watching a short video of a stand-up routine by Robin Williams. The students solved more of the puzzles over all, and significantly more by sudden insight, compared with when they\u2019d seen a scary or boring video beforehand.&#8221;\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;found that the visual areas in people in positive moods picked up more background detail, even when they were instructed to block out distracting information during a computer task.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/07\/science\/07brain.html\"><span>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/07\/science\/07brain.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thalia,\u00a0muse\u00a0of comedy, gazing upon a comic mask (detail from\u00a0Muses&#8217; Sarcophagus) \u00a0 \u200e&#8221;Those with positive moods, turn out to be more likely to solve the puzzles with sudden insight than with trial and error.&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;students solved word-association puzzles after watching a short video of a stand-up routine by Robin Williams. The students solved more of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-studio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}