Creative Thinking in an Emotional Context: Specific Relevance of Executive Control of Emotion-Laden Representations in the Inventiveness in Generating Alternative Appraisals of Negative Events

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TABLE 1 Summary of correlations between the inventiveness in generating alternative appraisals of negative events (RIT) and the inventiveness in generating novel ideas without emotional component (BIS) and executive functioning with increasing emotional contribution

	MPT Inhibition (CR)		Humor Task Inhibition/Shifting (Response Latency)		Humor Task Inhibition/Shifting (CTR)
	r (p)	sr (p)	r (p)	sr (p)	r (p)	sr (p)
RIT total	−.23(.032)	−.11(.325)	−.24(.026)	−.17(.119)	.26 (.016)	.26 (.016)
RIT positive reinterpretation	−.27(.012)	−.17(.098)	−.25(.019)	−.19(.074)	.24 (.027)	.22 (.040)
RIT problem-oriented	.11 (.297)	.21 (.046)	−.05(.640)	.01 (.922)	−.01(.912)	−.05(.669)
RIT de-emphasising	−.15(.173)	−.10(.360)	−.03(.757)	.01 (.964)	.19 (.081)	.17 (.112)
BIS	−.24(.025)	−.13(.243)	−.17(.106)	−.03(.750)	.09 (.403)	.09 (.405)

Note: r … Pearson correlation, sr … semi-partial correlation controlling for performance on the BIS (first four rows)/the RIT (last row). Correlations with p < .05 are highlighted in bold font.