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In Experiment 2 of the 2014 walking study, participants who sat down after walking still showed a residual boost in creative scores.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“when seated after walking, participants exhibited a residual creative boost”
Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking, Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014, Abstract, Experiment 2.
Open the original (DOI 10.1037/a0036577)- What it measures
- Participants completed the alternate uses test seated, then walking, then seated, or seated twice. Walking led to higher scores, and the boost continued after walking stopped.
- What it does not show
- The residual effect was measured on a short divergent-thinking test, not on writing. The abstract does not give how long the boost lasted.