Here's the link to a fascinating article by Dr Scott Barry Kaufman, writing in his 'Beautiful Minds' weblog on Psychology Today.
He muses about 'Love, Lust, and Creativity'.
What has caught my initial curiosity to read the article are the two contrasting research findings:
"Love enhances global processing and creative thinking whereas sex enhances local processing and analytic thinking. Thus, contrary to the intuitive notion of creativity and analytical thought as fixed human capacities or stable personality traits, they can easily be changed by subtle cues in the environment or by mere thinking about certain situations."
"... when men are chatting with a female who is a stranger, their cognitive ability takes a nose dive. Not better, but worse."
Read on.
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