Editing Insight (section)

====Individual differences====
Participants who ranked lower on emotionality and higher on openness to experience performed better on insight problems. Men outperformed women on insight problems, and women outperformed men on non-insight problems.<ref name="Lin, Hsu, Chen, Wang (2011)">{{cite journal|last1=Lin|first1=Wei-Lun |last2=Hsu|first2=Kung-Yu |last3=Chen|first3=Hsueh-Chih |last4=Wang|first4=Jenn-Wu |display-authors= 3 |title=The relations of gender and personality traits on different creativities: A dual-process theory account |journal=Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts|year=2011| doi= 10.1037/a0026241 |volume= 6 |issue= 2 |pages=112–123|s2cid=55632785 }}</ref>

Higher intelligence (higher [[IQ]]) is associated with better performance on insight problems. However, those of lower intelligence benefit more than those of higher intelligence from being provided with cues and hints for insight problems.<ref name="Nature of insight" />

A large-scale study in Australia suggests that insight may not be universally experienced, with almost 20% of respondents reporting that they had not experienced insight.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Ovington|first1=Linda A. |last2= Saliba|first2=Anthony J.|last3=Moran|first3=Carmen C.|last4=Goldring|first4=Jeremy|last5=MacDonald|first5=Jasmine B.|display-authors= 3| date=2015-11-01|title=Do People Really Have Insights in the Shower? The When, Where and Who of the Aha! Moment|journal=The Journal of Creative Behavior|volume=52|language=en|pages=21–34|doi=10.1002/jocb.126|issn=2162-6057}}</ref>