Why Humor Enhances Creativity From Theoretical Explanations to an Empirical Humor Training Program: Effective “Ha-Ha” Helps People to “A-Ha” - ScienceDirect
Table 4.5. ANCOVA Results of the Exercise of Divergent Feeling in the Creativity Assessment Packet for Undergraduates Table 4.6. ANCOVA Results of the Exercise of Divergent Feeling in Creativity Assessment Packet for Adults Humour is closely associated with the beneficial behaviours of creativity and playfulness. Humor appears to enable creativity due to its cognitive and emotional perspectives, and humour training can facilitate creativity [167]. Creativity is one area where negative humour styles may be helpful. As a limitation, one may argue that the demands of the HUT and the AUT were not fully matched, since the HUT did not require participants to create their own humor in the sense that the AUT required creating novel object uses. Yet, the fundamental idea in the present study was that humor comprehension implicates processes that are characteristic for creative cognition (see also Chen et al., 2019). Nonetheless, the inclusion of the creation of novel humor in neuroscientific re