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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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