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Self-Construal And Insight Problem Solving, Junaid Salim Merrchant
Self-Construal And Insight Problem Solving, Junaid Salim Merrchant
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
Self-construal research has shown that the way people view themselves impacts a variety of cognitive processes. Research has focused on two levels of self-construal: the interdependent self-construal, or when the self is represented in relation to others, and the independent self construal, or when the self is represented independently of others. Findings from the self construal and cognition research suggest that the interdependent self is associated with diffuse attention, while findings from the self-construal and creativity research indicate that the independent self is associated with divergent thinking important for creativity. The present study examined the effect of self-construal priming in …