Drunk People Are Better at Creative Problem Solving
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Please refresh the page and retry. O n Tuesday, it will be a year since I last had a drink: days of not doing the thing that characterised my adult life from the ages of 13 to This is a sentence I never imagined I would write. Alcohol may have got me into relationships, but it just as quickly boomeranged me out of them. People may want to be with the girl dancing on the table, but she loses her appeal when her lack of recall puts them in a permanent Groundhog Day.
By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail. Bittersweet: Keith Harris, who died yesterday from cancer aged 67, with his duck Orville in Saturday nights were once the showcase of ventriloquist Keith Harris. When the work dried up, aside from occasional appearances on quiz games and reality shows, the man with the squeaky green duck vanished from our screens 25 years ago and never managed a comeback.
P rofessor Andrew Jarosz of Mississippi State University and colleagues served vodka-cranberry cocktails to 20 male subjects until their blood alcohol levels neared legal intoxication and then gave each a series of word association problems to solve. Not only did those who imbibed give more correct answers than a sober control group performing the same task, but they also arrived at solutions more quickly. The conclusion: drunk people are better at creative problem solving. JAROSZ: You often hear of great writers, artists, and composers who claim that alcohol enhanced their creativity, or people who say their ideas are better after a few drinks. We wanted to see if we could find evidence to back that up, and though this was a small experiment, we did.