Effect of Alcohol on Quantity of Creative Production Using the Purdue Tests

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ID13658752
AuthorsRoland Gustafson (University of Örebro, Sweden, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume69
Issue1
Pages83-90
Publication date1991-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1991.69.1.83
PMID1961832
OpenAlexW2000770816
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

An experiment was performed to test whether a moderate dose of alcohol (1 ml of 100% alcohol/kg body weight) facilitates the production of creative solutions as measured with a standard creativity test and whether a creative attitude interacts with alcohol in this respect. The 60 subjects were randomly assigned to either an alcohol, a placebo, or a control group, with 10 women and 10 men in each group. Two different personality tests measuring the creative attitude were administered a priori. Analysis indicated that both the placebo and alcohol groups produced significantly less creative solutions to the ten stimulus pictures. The a priori attitude scores significantly predicted the creativity scores for the placebo and alcohol subjects but not for the control subjects. Results were discussed in terms of disinhibition and cognitive changes under alcohol

Alcohol · Cognition · Creativity · Developmental psychology · Disinhibition · Personality · Placebo · Psychiatry · Test (biology · Clinical Psychology · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Medicine · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Psychology · Social Psychology

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