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eureka heuristic: a standalone construct

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Creativity research

the tendency to judge ideas as more likely true when they arrive with a feeling of sudden insight, even when that feeling is artificially induced.

In creativity research, eureka heuristic refers to the tendency to judge ideas as more likely true when they arrive with a feeling of sudden insight, even when that feeling is artificially induced. This meaning comes from Laukkonen (2020) in Cognition.[1]

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References

Laukkonen, R. E., Kaveladze, B. T., Tangen, J. M., & Schooler, J. W. (2020). The dark side of Eureka: Artificially induced Aha moments make facts feel true. Cognition, 196, 104122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104122

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