Multiple Tasks' and Multiple Goals' Effect on Creativity: Forced Incubation or Just a Distraction?

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Deepening our understanding of creativity in the workplace: A review of different approaches to creativity research. (2011, background): “For example, Madjar and Shalley (2008) proposed that individuals’ focus of attention and experience of cognitive exhaustion may explain how multiple tasks, multiple goals, and discretion may effect incubation and subsequent creativity.”
Multiple goals: A review and derivation of general principles (2014, methodology): “Similarly, the concept of multiple goal pursuit has been used when considering both simultaneous (e.g., Schmidt & DeShon, 2007) and sequential (e.g., Leroy, 2009; Madjar & Shalley, 2008) goal pursuit.”