Creativity Killed the Recession » Sex http://www.creativitykilledtherecession.com Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:02:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Falling in Love Makes You More Creative http://www.creativitykilledtherecession.com/falling-in-love-makes-you-more-creative/ http://www.creativitykilledtherecession.com/falling-in-love-makes-you-more-creative/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:02:48 +0000 adil http://www.creativitykilledtherecession.com/?p=245 Among the things I’d call the last girl I fell in love with, I would often refer to her as my Muse.  While I was deeply aware that it wasn’t a very common thing to say, I couldn’t help but feel that she was the source of my inspiration. Am I cheesy? Sure. Was I correct? Apparently, yes.

A new study out of the University of Amsterdam has found a strong relationship between being in love and being creative.  When in love, we tend to think more long term and thus trigger global processing which is considered central to creative thinking and interfering with analytical thinking. Conversely, when not in love we tend to think more in the immediate which triggers local processing and has the exact opposite effects.

Having sex on the mind, therefore, is apparently extremely limiting to one’s creativity. Go figure. Scientific America does a good job of analyzing the results of the study here.

What are your thoughts?

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