In contrast to the conventional reasoning process that relies heavily on cognitive control, an individual's creativity may show an increasing trend when the cognitive control function is suppressed. A typical situation in which this occurs is low cognitive inhibition triggered by strong anger. In studies of the influence of anger on creativity, the creative tasks used were mostly divergent‐thinking tasks, and few studies have compared the impact of anger and joy on general thinking and creative thinking directly. In addition to using an Alternative‐Uses Task (AUT) that reflects divergent thinking, this study also adopted the matching routine and novel chunk‐decomposition tasks to evaluate general and novel problem‐solving, respectively. We also focused on the impact of angry and joy moods on creative tasks, comparing them with a control condition of neutral mood. The results revealed that the induction of an anger emotion promotes an individual's divergent thinking more than that of a joy emotion, and that both anger and joy are effective ways for creative problem‐solving. Furthermore, anger reduced the reaction time while joy increased the accuracy rate to facilitate the creative problem‐solving.

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愤怒或快乐越有创造力？愤怒和喜悦的诱导对创造性解决问题和发散思维的影响。

与传统上依赖于认知控制的推理过程相反，当认知控制功能受到抑制时，个人的创造力可能会呈现出增加的趋势。发生这种情况的典型情况是强烈的愤怒触发了较低的认知抑制。在研究愤怒对创造力的影响时，所使用的创造力任务大多是发散思维任务，很少有研究直接比较愤怒和欢乐对一般思维和创造力思维的影响。除了使用反映不同思维的替代使用任务（AUT）外，本研究还采用了匹配的例行程序和新颖的块分解任务来分别评估常规和新颖的问题解决方案。我们还专注于生气和喜悦的情绪对创造性任务的影响，比较他们与中立情绪的控制条件。结果表明，愤怒情绪的诱发比喜悦情绪更能促进个人的发散思维，并且愤怒和喜悦都是解决创造性问题的有效方法。此外，愤怒减少了反应时间，而喜悦则提高了准确率，从而有助于创造性地解决问题。