Title :
Do constraints facilitate or inhibit creative problem solving: A theoretical explanation of two seemingly contradictory experimental studies
Author :
Villaverde, Karen ; Kosheleva, Olga ; Ceberio, Martine
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, USA
Abstract :
Do constraints facilitate or inhibit creative problem solving? Recently, two experimental studies appeared, one showing that removing constraints may enhance creativity, another showing that adding constraints can facilitate creative problem solving. In this paper, we provide a theoretical explanation of these two seemingly contradictory experimental results.
Keywords :
behavioural sciences; problem solving; constraints effect; creative problem solving; Accuracy; Approximation algorithms; Approximation methods; Equations; Extraterrestrial measurements; Optimization;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 2012 Annual Meeting of the North American
Conference_Location :
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2336-9
Electronic_ISBN :
pending
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.2012.6291043
