Disentangling Reflection Strategy and Focus: How Task and Imaginative Reflection Affect Creativity

In the current paper, we argue that progress in reflection research is hindered by the holistic approach adopted in reflection interventions, making it difficult to identify the building blocks that make reflection interventions effective. On the basis of a theoretical analysis of reflection instructions used in previous research, we propose and test a new ‘building block’ framework distinguishing two dimensions: reflection strategy (i.e., task...