Increasing the chances for emotional ambivalence

Situations that increase emotional ambivalence:

• Being placed in higher-status positions; and
• Engaging in organizational recruitment and socialization

A person stuck in an unusual environment can show increased levels of creative thinking, and the fact of the matter is that creativity is the experience of unusual and unexpected events. So if you want to increase creativity, ask yourself if your current environment brings out emotional ambivalence and motivational intensity or not.