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Thabane A, Arora V, Boilard J, Sutoski A, Parpia S, Calic G, et al. The impact of walking on creative thinking: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One. 2026;21(5):e0347878. PMID 42127076(verification gap: Participants were mostly students, several positive studies came from a single author group, and the review could not analyse walking duration or intensity as moderators.) Systematic review and meta-analysis of 23 studies (12 randomised experimental, 9 non-randomised experimental, 2 observational) from 16 articles, 1036 participants, mostly post-secondary students; certainty assessed with GRADE. · weight 1.0 · Walking had a large effect on divergent thinking (d 0.93, 95% CI 0.44 to 1.42; randomised-only sensitivity analysis d 0.82, 0.35 to 1.28) and no clear effect on convergent thinking (d 0.16, -0.31 to 0.63). Most studies used indoor walking and the alternate-uses task; the authors rated certainty moderate for divergent thinking and very uncertain for convergent thinking.
Oppezzo M, Schwartz DL. Give your ideas some legs: the positive effect of walking on creative thinking. J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2014;40(4):1142-1152. PMID 24749966(verification gap: Small laboratory experiments rather than a randomised trial of real creative work, and the same group produced several of the positive studies pooled in later reviews.) Four experiments in adults comparing seated and walking conditions on divergent thinking (alternate uses) and convergent thinking (compound remote associates), including indoor treadmill, outdoor and wheelchair control conditions. · weight 0.5 · Walking improved alternate-uses scores, with 81% of participants improving while walking versus 23% on the convergent remote-associates test. A residual creative boost persisted when participants sat after walking, and walking outdoors produced the most novel and highest-quality analogies, with the effects of walking and outdoor stimulation separable.
Limits: The pooled effect this tool references (d 0.93) was measured on lab divergent-thinking tasks in mostly student samples, immediately after short walks. It is not a prediction about the quality of any particular idea.
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