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Thursday, 9 February 2012




Acting out sayings can make you more creative

An interesting study in Psychological Science has shown that acting out sayings can make people more creative.

 

Five experiments were carried out to see if sayings related to creativity could actually help someone to come up with lots of original ideas.

The phrase “think outside the box” has been so overused that it’s become a bit of a joke.

However, in the study, volunteers were asked to complete some creativity tests either sat literally inside a box, or just outside of one. The people outside the box did actually come up with more ideas, and more original ones, than those who did the tests in the box.

Another test looked at the phrase “putting two and two together”. Some volunteers had to put halved coasters together again, while others just moved them to different piles. The ones who literally put the two halves together were better at tests where they had to take several pieces of information and work out the right answer.





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  • superspy10 (Age 11) wrote on Thursday, 9 February 2012 @ 17:26

    weird

  • bizzy4100 (Age 12) wrote on Thursday, 9 February 2012 @ 20:26

    Wow! That is really cool! But it is a little freaky, don't you think?

  • tom2000 (Age 11) wrote on Saturday, 11 February 2012 @ 19:54

    strange

  • Sam121 (Age 7) wrote on Sunday, 12 February 2012 @ 18:53

    Kind of freaky!!! But just talking is easier than pictures.