Such empirical studies are a relatively recent
addition to the body of literature on intuition and
creative problem solving, and continued scholarly
pursuits in this field will likely yield further
gains. Specifically, recent work suggests the need
to further examine the contexts in which affect
most strongly impacts the intuition-creative performance
relationship. Such research demonstrates
that positive affect may in effect
substitute for intuition in the creative problemsolving
process. This also points to the importance
of developing interventions to capitalize
on this relationship. For instance, it would be
fruitful for studies to examine when it may be
most effective to provide affect-enhancing cues,
and when it may be more valuable to provide
potentially drier, but perhaps more informative
directions