More creative through positive mood? Not everyone!

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER 2012, 2012, Pages

  Chermahini, Soghra Akbari ^a,b   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ARAK UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Creativity; Divergent thinking; Dopamine; Emotion; Eye blink rate

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; DIVERGENT THINKING; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 84933674509     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00319     Document Type: Article

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