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| <h2><strong>What is Forward Flow?</strong></h2> | |
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| <strong><em>A Stream of Consciousness.</em></strong> Each of us | |
| possesses a stream of consciousness, a steady flow of thoughts that | |
| define our mental life. This naturalistic stream is hard to capture, | |
| but has been assessed with free association, in which people | |
| sequentially list their thoughts. Unfortunately, free association is a | |
| qualitative task that seems hard to quantify. | |
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| <strong><em>An Analytic Technique.</em></strong> However, latent | |
| semantic analysis (LSA) provides a way to quantify the conceptual | |
| content of naturalistic thought. LSA computes the semantic distance | |
| between two words by examining how often they appear together within | |
| texts. For example, “snow” and “white” have a small semantic distance | |
| (they are close in meaning), whereas “snow” and “carburetor” have a | |
| large semantic distance. | |
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| <strong><em>Forward Motion in Thought</em></strong> | |
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| Forward flow is the average semantic distance between any given | |
| thought and all previous thoughts. It can be understood as the ability | |
| for a stream of consciousness to flow forward, leaving behind previous | |
| thoughts. Low forward flow is when thoughts circle back to previous | |
| thoughts (e.g., happy, smile, dentist, teeth, smile, happy); high | |
| forward flow is when thoughts continue to flow away from the past | |
| (e.g., happy, smile, dentist, doctor, hospital, helicopter). | |
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| <strong><em>Forward Flow and Creativity.</em></strong> Our work | |
| suggests that this forward motion in naturalistic thought predicts | |
| creativity. People with higher forward flow give more creative answers | |
| to standard creativity tasks, and those with creative careers (e.g., | |
| actors, entrepreneurs) have higher forward flow than the general | |
| population. | |
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| <strong><em>Graphing Forward Flow</em></strong> | |
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| Forward flow provides a way to graph people's stream of thought—via | |
| the thought plot. | |
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