Creative Facility in Narrative Production

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Abstract

This study examined creative facility – the ability to readily construct novel, appropriate messages. Subjects produced SITUATION – ACTION – BECAUSE narratives, and completed measures of speed of information processing, cognitive tempo, and need for cognitive structure. Results indicate each of these measures was related to the speed with which participants were able to formulate narratives. The impact of cognitive tempo and need for cognitive structure was heightened under more cognitively demanding message-production conditions.

Authors

• John Greene, Purdue University

• Melanie Morgan, Purdue University

• Jennifer McCullough, Purdue University

• Elizabeth Gill, Eastern Illinois University