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Direct linkWenzel, William G.; Gerrig, Richard J. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
This project demonstrates how narrative mysteries provide a context in which readers engage in creative cognition. Drawing on the concepts of convergent and divergent thinking, we wrote stories that had either convergent or divergent outcomes. For example, one story had a character give his girlfriend a ring (a convergent outcome), whereas the…
Descriptors: Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Story Reading, Protocol Analysis
