Fluid Movement

Fluid Movement

Fluid movement and creativity.

Cognitive scientists describe creativity as fluid thought. Drawing from findings on gesture and embodied cognition, we hypothesized that the physical experience of fluidity, relative to nonfluidity, would lead to more fluid, creative thought. Across 3 experiments, fluid arm movement led to enhanced creativity in 3 domains: creative generation, cognitive flexibility, and remote associations. Alt...

Fluid Movement in Earth Materials

An analytical method of determining the ionic diffusion transverse to the direction of flow in granular media is presented. The basic assumption that the frontal zone created by longitudinal dispersion is fully developed and stationary before the transverse diffusion can cause spreading is made to simplify the mathematical analysis. Solutions were obtained in terms of both a series of Bessel's ...

Fluid movement and fluid social cognition: bodily movement influences essentialist thought.

Rigid social categorization can lead to negative social consequences such as stereotyping and prejudice. The authors hypothesized that bodily experiences of fluidity would promote fluidity in social-categorical thinking. Across a series of experiments, fluid movements compared with nonfluid movements led to more fluid lay theories of social categories, more fluidity in social categorization, an...

BRIEF REPORT Fluid Movement and Creativity

Cognitive scientists describe creativity as fluid thought. Drawing from findings on gesture and embodied cognition, we hypothesized that the physical experience of fluidity, relative to nonfluidity, would lead to more fluid, creative thought. Across 3 experiments, fluid arm movement led to enhanced creativity in 3 domains: creative generation, cognitive flexibility, and remote associations. Alt...