Lessons from a Faraway land: The effect of spatial distance on creative cognition

By Lile Jia, E. Hirt, Samuel C. Karpen. 2009

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Cheryl J. Wakslak
2. J. Rohrbach
3. J. V. van Merriënboer
4. Fred Paas
5. Marlone D. Henderson
6. Kentaro Fujita
7. Angela L. Duckworth
8. James J. Gross

In Social Psychology

1. J. V. van Merriënboer
2. Cheryl J. Wakslak
3. J. Rohrbach
4. Fred Paas
5. Marlone D. Henderson
6. Kentaro Fujita
7. H. Choi
8. Angela L. Duckworth

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of the Physical Environment on Cognitive Load and Learning: Towards a New Model of Cognitive Load (2014, background): “Jia et al. (2009), for instance, investigated the effect of spatial distance on creative cognition and insight problem solving.”
• Construal Level Theory and Spatial Distance Implications for Mental Representation, Judgment, and Behavior (2011, background): “Jia , Hirt , and Karpen ( 2009 ) reasoned that more abstract , higher lev - el construals should facilitate creativity ( see also Förster , Friedman , & Liberman , 2004 ) and demonstrated that por - traying a creative task as originating from a far rather than close location led participants to…”