"The Penny Drops": Investigating Insight Through the Medium of Cryptic Crosswords.

Indeed, 80.3% of participants agreed with the full “Yes” option: “ Yes—the answer is often obvious when I return to the crossword” with a further 14.3% agreeing that “ I sometimes find it helpful to take a break, but I often return to the thoughts I was having previously.” S solvers were least likely to have taken advantage of incubation breaks; even so, differences in the distribution of incubation effect between groups failed to reach statistical significance ( χ ( 4 ) 2 = 8.681, p = 0.070, Cramer's V = 0.074 [0.040, 0.135]).

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