Implications of Counterfactual Structure for Creative Generation and Analytical Problem Solving

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Counterfactuals in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Reasoning (2019, methodology): “The additive counterfactual group performed better than the subtractive one on subsequent creative problem-solving tasks such as generating creative uses for an object [Markman et al., 2007].”
A Dual Process Account of Creative Thinking (2011, background): “In contrast, Markman et al. (2007) found that subtractive counterfactual thinking (i.e., subtracting antecedent events to reconstruct reality) improved performance on tasks which required less divergent thinking: a version of the Remote Associations Task (Mednick, 1962) and syllogisms.”
The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking (2008, background): “To illustrate, regrets about a specific underachievement in college and the resulting intention to fix this situation may also activate a counterfactual mind-set, which has certain consequences for other domains of life (e.g., creativity; Markman et al., 2007).”
The maximizing mind-set (2014, background): “Markman et al. (2007) expanded on this result by differentiating between two kinds of counterfactual mind-set: a subtractive counterfactual mind-set (involving deleting elements that were present in reality) enhanced performance on analytic tasks, whereas an additive counterfactual mind-set…”