Emotion and Managerial Experience Influence Prototype Elicitation in Operations and Management Fields

We explored how emotion and managerial experience influence creative problem solving in operations and management fields via experiment. Following by priming participants’ emotions via CAPS (Chinese Affective Picture System) stimuli, we then conducted creative problems through learning-testing and many-to-many paradigms to test the problems solving ability among participants. Item difficulties were flexibly controlled according to the experimental requirements. Firstly, we found prototype-elicitation effect exits. Secondly, the experiment has revealed that managerial experience promotes the prototype-elicitation effect. Participants with managerial experience are significantly more accurate than inexperienced participants on the difficult problems. Thirdly, while inexperienced group rarely influenced by either positive or negative emotions, experienced group problem solving performances are enhanced by low-arousal negative emotions.

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