Mood, Attention, and the Aha! Moment

Although research has generally shown that positive affect broadens attentional scope and enhances creativity, recent evidence suggests that the mood-attention relationship depends on the present dominant attentional focus. The current research seeks to extend these findings to the ability to solve insight problems. Undergraduates were primed to focus globally or locally and induced with a mood before completing insight problems. Contrary to past research, participants primed with a local, as opposed to global, focus of attention solved significantly more insight problems. There was no significant mood-attention interaction on insight problem-solving ability. This suggests that convergent thinking may play as substantial a role as divergent thinking in insight problem solving. Moreover, at least in the realm of insight, mood does not act as a signal that determines if a dominant attentional focus is acted upon or not

Ragged Schools in Sydney

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Ragged Schools were a feature of many of Sydney’s overcrowded inner city suburbs. At their height over 500 children were taught across five Schools each day. This article charts the formation of the Ragged Schools in 1860, preceded by an overview of their precursors in Great Britain and a survey of the social and demographic changes in Sydney in the 1850s. It explores the relationships between teachers, scholars and their parents and probes at the slum stereotypes that affected the way the Ragged Schools were written about by middle-class philanthropists. Finally, the reasons for the disintegration of Sydney’s Ragged Schools in the 1920s are surmised and the article concludes with a reflection on how this part of Sydney’s history has been both remembered and forgotten

Motif Dan Kepuasan Pengguna Instagram Di Komunitas Instameet Indonesia

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui motif dan kepuasan komunitas Instameet Indonesia dalam menggunakan Instagram.Instameet Indonesia merupakan komunitas pengguna Instagram yang saling berinteraksi dan bertemu untuk melakukan photo hunting antar pengguna. Melalui Instameet para pengguna Instagram dapat saling mengenal satu sama lain dan berinteraksi lebih nyata, saling berbagi, dan menginspirasi. Kemudian Instagram adalah media sosial yang digunakan sebagai temapt menyebarkan dan berbagai informasi, berinteraksi dengan orang banyak, serta dapat mengenal lebih dekat dengan sesama pengguna. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif, dengan jenis penelitian deskriptif. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode email survei dengan menggunakan teknik kuesioner. Responden dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 100 orang yang diperoleh hasil bahwa semakin tinggi motif seseorang menggunakan Instagram, akan semakin tinggi pula kepuasan yang seseorang ingin dapatka