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| Title |
More creative through positive mood? Not everyone!
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00319 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
S. Akbari Chermahini, Bernhard Hommel |
| Abstract |
It is commonly assumed that positive mood improves human creativity and that the neurotransmitter dopamine might mediate this association. However, given the non-linear relation between dopamine and flexibility in divergent thinking (Akbari Chermahini and Hommel, 2010), the impact of mood on divergent kinds of creativity might depend on a given individual's tonic dopamine level. We tested this possibility in adults by assessing mood, performance in a divergent thinking task [the Alternate Uses Task (AUT)], and eye blink rates (EBRs), a well-established clinical marker of the individual dopamine level, before and after positive mood or negative mood induction. As expected, the association between flexibility in divergent thinking performance and EBR followed an inverted U-shape function (with best performance for medium levels), positive mood induction raised EBRs and only individuals with below-median EBRs, but not those with above-median EBRs, benefited from positive mood. These observations provide support for dopamine-based approaches to the impact of mood on creativity and challenge the generality of the widely held view that positive mood facilitates creativity. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 36% |
| Japan | 2 | 18% |
| Australia | 1 | 9% |
| China | 1 | 9% |
| Italy | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 2 | 18% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 55% |
| Scientists | 2 | 18% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 176 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Sweden | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 166 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 40 | 23% |
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 13% |
| Researcher | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 9% |
| Other | 27 | 15% |
| Unknown | 26 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 85 | 48% |
| Neuroscience | 14 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 11 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 20 | 11% |
| Unknown | 34 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 March 2023.
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#875
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#12,642
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#52
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So far Altmetric has tracked 7,707 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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