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Journal article
How to Detect Insight Moments in Problem Solving Experiments
Frontiers in psychology, Vol.9, pp.1-5
09/03/2018
PMID: 29593598
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Abstract
Arguably, it is not possible to study insight moments during problem solving without being able to accurately detect when they occur (Bowden and Jung-Beeman, 2007). Despite over a century of research on the insight moment, there is surprisingly little consensus on the best way to measure them in real-time experiments. There have also been no attempts to evaluate whether the different ways of measuring insight converge. Indeed, if it turns out that the popular measures of insight diverge, then this may indicate that researchers who have used one method may have been measuring a different phenomenon to those who have used another method. We compare the strengths and weaknesses of the two most commonly cited ways of measuring insight: The feelings-of-warmth measure adapted from Metcalfe and Wiebe (1987), and the self-report measure adapted from Bowden and Jung-Beeman (2007). We find little empirical agreement between the two measures, and conclude that the self-report measure of Aha! is superior both methodologically and theoretically, and provides a better representation of what is commonly regarded as insight. We go on to describe and recommend a novel visceral measure of insight using a dynamometer as described in Creswell et al. (2016).
Details
- Title
- How to Detect Insight Moments in Problem Solving Experiments
- Creators
- Ruben E. Laukkonen - University of QueenslandJason M. Tangen - University of Queensland
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in psychology, Vol.9, pp.1-5
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media Sa
- Number of pages
- 5
- Identifiers
- 991013062213302368
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2018 Laukkonen and Tangen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article