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defocused attention: a standalone construct

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Creativity research

a broad, less selective attentional state that lets more ideas enter awareness at once, proposed to raise the chance of creative combinations.

In creativity research, defocused attention refers to a broad, less selective attentional state that lets more ideas enter awareness at once, proposed to raise the chance of creative combinations. This meaning comes from Mendelsohn (1976) in Journal of Personality.[1]

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Mendelsohn, G. A. (1976). Associative and attentional processes in creative performance1. Journal of Personality, 44(2), 341-369. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1976.tb00127.x

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