Laukkonen and his colleagues found that participants in the anagram condition rated the statements as truer compared to those in the control condition. Participants then reported whether they had experienced an “Aha moment” while unscramble the anagram before moving on to the next statement.
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When the answer had been submitted or time ran out, participants were shown the full statement and then rated how true or false it was. Those in the anagram condition, in contrast, were presented with the statement “We gain the deepest knowledge by simply being in ” and shown an anagram of the last word (in this case, “artenu.”) They were given 15 seconds to unscramble the word.
Participants in the no anagram condition read statements such as “We gain the deepest knowledge by simply being in nature” and then rated how true or false they were. Then, 2,489 individuals were randomly assigned to either an Anagram or No Anagram condition - the latter of which was used as a control group. Each statement was constructed so that its final word was critical to its meaning. The researchers first generated 15 statements that were not objectively demonstrable as true or false. The first thing to do then, was to see whether we could artificially use feelings of insight to change people’s beliefs in the laboratory, which is what we found in these experiments.” I began to consider the possibility that feelings of insight themselves can drive changes in our beliefs (at some level), and that under certain circumstances or states of mind, the feeling of insight can mislead us entirely. On a more dramatic scale, I also observed that individuals suffering from schizophrenia or delusions too report strong experiences of insight. But powerful feelings of insight were also sometimes misleading, making seemingly bad ideas feel very true. “Insights seemed to signal an important transformation within. For example, I would have lively conversations with colleagues and it was only really when they managed to trigger an ‘Aha!’ moment that I was willing to consider their perspective (or perhaps even adopt it),” explained cognitive neuroscientist Ruben Laukkonen, a postdoctoral fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. “I was inspired by the observation that insight experiences tend to happen at the same time as people change their beliefs or worldviews. The study provides evidence that people who experience sudden insights are more likely to see “temporally coincident but unrelated beliefs” as truthful.
Experimentally-induced “aha moments” can make subjective claims appear more valid, according to new research published in Scientific Reports.
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