社会的比較に基づく洞察の促進・抑制

Facilitation and inhibition of insightful problem solving based on social comparison

Ariga Atsunori

心理学研究

The Japanese Journal of Psychology

Intuitively, insight emerges unexpectedly. However, some previous views proposed that insight emerges with a high probability after people recognize their failure in solving a problem. In order to empirically investigate this failure-insight relationship, this study manipulated when participants recognized failure by using social comparison. It presumed that participants who had not yet solved the problem but knew others had already solved it would recognize that their currently adopted strategy was a failure; the timing of this was manipulated in the experiment. As expected, participants who were given a cover story regarding othersʼ fast performance for the T-puzzle completed the same puzzle more successfully, as compared to those who were given a story of othersʼ slow performance. The results suggest that the occurrence of insight was influenced by when participants recognized their failure. Providing social reality information (i.e., othersʼ good/poor performance) might be a method to facilitate or inhibit insightful problem solving.

problem solving

insight

social comparison

T-puzzle

jpn

日本心理学会

[ISSN] 0021-5236

[ISSN] 1884-1082

[NCID] AN00123620

[DOI] 10.4992/jjpsy.83.576

[DOI] https://doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.83.576