Picture-activated mood and creativity in online brainstorming: the roles of flexibility and persistence.

BMC Psychol · 2025 · PMC12590868 · PMID 41194275

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The analysis revealed a marginally significant effect of mood on the number of deep ideas, F (1, 115) = 3.86, p =.05, η2 = 0.03, and a significant effect of presentation format, F (1, 115) = 4.27, p =.04, η2 = 0.04.

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These findings suggest that presentation format had a small but significant effect on how deeply participants engaged in idea generation, while mood approached significance and may still play a meaningful role in cognitive elaboration.

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