Affective Influences on Motivation and Creativity

Middlewood, B. L., Gallegos, J.M., & Gasper, K. (in press). Embracing the unusual: Feeling tired and happy is associated with greater acceptance of atypical ideas. Creativity Research Journal

Gasper, K. & Middlewood, B. L. (2014). Approaching Novel Thoughts: Understanding why Elation and Boredom Promote Associative Thought More than Distress and Relaxation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 50-57. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.12.007

Gasper, K. & Zawadzki, M. J.* (2012). Want Information? How Mood and Performance Perceptions Alter the Perceived Value of Information and Influence Information-Seeking Behaviors. Motivation & Emotion, 34, 308-322. doi: 10.1007/s11031-012-9303-7

Gasper, K., & Isbell, L. M. (2007). Feeling, Searching, and Preparing:  How Affective States Alter Information Seeking. In Vohs, K. D., Baumeister, R. F., & Loewenstein, G., (Eds.).  Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian perspective (pp. 93-116). New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.

Gasper, K. (2004). Permission to seek freely? The effect of happy and sad moods on generating old and new ideas. The Creativity Research Journal, 16, 215 – 229.

Gasper, K. (2003). When necessity is the mother of invention: Mood and problem solving. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 248-262.

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