The effects of emotional ambivalence on creativity

By Christina T. Fong. 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, positive): “Emotional ambivalence or the co-occurrence of negative and positive emotions has also been shown to enhance knowledge creation (Amabile, Barsade, Mueller, & Staw, 2005; George & Zhou, 2007; Fong, 2006).”
Portrait of The Angry Decision Maker: How Appraisal Tendencies Shape Anger's Influence on Cognition. (2006, background): “Some recent data suggest that this state results in increased cognitive processing (Fong, 2004).”
The Importance of Being Emotional : How do Emotions Affect Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation and Exploitation? (2010, methodology): “We used an induction procedure equal to those used in prior studies (e.g., Gross and Levenson, 1995; Fong, 2006; Lerner et al., 2004).”
Cognitive Frames, Learning Mechanisms, and Innovation Ambidexterity* (2014, background): “Thus, ambidextrous frames reduce the likelihood that the SBU will fall back on conventional lines of thought and instead enhance its ability to reconcile that which is contradictory (Fong, 2006).”
A Dialectic Perspective on Innovation: Conflicting Demands, Multiple Pathways, and Ambidexterity (2009, background): “Fong (2006) found that experiencing the state of emotional ambivalence— the simultaneous presence of positive and negative emotions—leads to a state of higher creativity.”
Organizational response to adversity: Fusing crisis management and resilience research streams (2017, background): “Emotional ambivalence opens actors to alternative perspectives that can increase judgment accuracy (Rees, Rothman, Lehavy, & Sanchez-Burks, 2013), enhance cognitive flexibility (Fong, 2006), and assist in the anticipation of and preparation for the unexpected (Vogus et al., 2014).”
The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis (2020, background): “Indeed, emotional ambivalence (e.g., recalling an event such as a graduation) fosters creativity (Fong, 2006).”
A Dynamic Perspective on Affect and Creativity (2013, background): “That is, positive and negative affect can both be present within a time interval; however, as they are mutually inhibitory, the simultaneous presence of high positive and high negative affect at any moment is rare (Fong, 2006; Schmukle, Egloff, & Burns, 2002).”
Ambivalence in Organizations: A Multilevel Approach (2014, background): “However, during this same period, other research has linked cognitive and/or emotional ambivalence to better chief executive offier (CEO) decision making (Plambeck and Weber 2009), heightened creativity (Fong 2006), increased receptivity to alternatives resulting in improved judgment accuracy (Rees ”
The “heart” of entrepreneurship: The impact of entrepreneurial action on health and health on entrepreneurial action (2015, background): “On the other hand, entrepreneurs have the opportunity to select with whom they wish to work (Forbes et al., 2006) and some ventures are created by a founding team (Ucbasaran et al., 2003) and thereby can develop strong friendships that alleviate feelings of loneliness (Deborah and William, 2000).”
From the Editors Publishing Laboratory Research in AMJ: A Question of When, Not If (2008, background): “Similarly, Fong (2006) built new theory by linking emotional ambivalence to creativity, grounding that new relationship with logic from informational models of emotion.”
Deepening our understanding of creativity in the workplace: A review of different approaches to creativity research. (2011, background): “…studies demonstrating positive affect’s relationship to creativity were conducted in the laboratory, whereas most of the studies showing facilitative effects of negative affect or joint effects of positive and negative affect (with the exception of Fong, 2006) have been conducted in field settings.”
Entrepreneurial orientation and SME performance in China’s changing environment: The moderating effects of strategies (2010, positive): “Configuration theorists, recognizing organizational systems as composed by multiple and co-existent relationships instead of either-or relationships (Fong, 2006; Kosmala & Herrbach, 2006; Kreiner, Ashforth, & Sluss, 2006; Piderit, 2000), suggest that 418 Z.”
Understanding managerial development: integrating developmental assignments, learning orientation and access to developmental opportunities in predicting managerial competencies (2010, positive): “As a result, managers in developmental assignments may be more likely to see patterns and relationships among seemingly unrelated stimuli, thereby developing more elaborate and sophisticated mental models and raising their creative problem solving skills (Day et al., 2009; Fong, 2006).”
Understanding The Dual Nature of Ambivalence: Why and When Ambivalence Leads to Good and Bad Outcomes (2017, neutral): “…Emotions Larsen, McGraw and Cacioppo, 2001; Larsen and McGraw, 2014 The co-occurrence of positive and negative affects Emotional Ambivalence Fong, 2006; Pratt and Doucet, 2000; Pratt and Rosa, 2003; Rothman, Rees, Lehavy and SanchezBurks, 2013 The simultaneous experience of positive…”
Cooperative and Competitive Orientation among Chinese People: Scale Development and Validation (2011, background): “…previous research has shown that people who can experience more ambivalent emotions tend to be more creative than those who experience few (e.g., Fong, 2006), and it would be interesting to study whether or not people with strong cooperation orientation as well as strong competition orientation…”