Affect in Fantasy Play, Emotion in Memories, and Divergent Thinking

By Sandra W. Russ, Ethan D. Schafer. 2006

94 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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How researchers see this paper

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. C. E. Wallace
2. Jessica Hoffmann
3. Mark A. Runco
4. Sandra W. Russ
5. Selcuk Acar

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. C. E. Wallace
2. Sandra W. Russ
3. Jessica Hoffmann
4. Mark A. Runco
5. Paul J Silvia
6. Selcuk Acar
7. James C. Kaufman
8. R. Beghetto

In Visual Arts and Performing Arts

1. C. E. Wallace
2. Jessica Hoffmann
3. Mark A. Runco
4. Sandra W. Russ

Citations in the corpus

• Pretend Play, Divergent Thinking, and Math Achievement in Girls: A Longitudinal Study (2015, background): “Other studies have found similar relations between both positive and negative affect in play and divergent thinking (Lieberman, 1977; Russ & Grossman-McKee, 1990; Russ & Schafer, 2006).”
• The Creativity of Lying: Divergent Thinking and Ideational Correlates of the Resolution of Social Dilemmas (2008, background): “Among children, divergent thinkers are more likely to engage in pretend play than those less divergent (Russ & Schafer, 2006).”
• Pretend play, creativity, and emotion regulation in children. (2012, background): “This result is consistent with Russ and Schafer’s (2006) findings that affect in play is related to affect expression in memory narratives.”