Suffering a creative block? Drinking a pint of beer may trigger productivity and help you think out of the box for your artistic tasks, a study suggests.<\/p>\n
Scientists from the University of Graz in Austria found that people performed better in a range of creative tasks after drinking moderate amount of alcohol.<\/p>\n
In one word association test, a pint of beer for men, or around 350 mililitres (ml) for women, increased test scores by around 40 per cent.<\/p>\n
In the test, participants were given three words and asked to think of a word that can be connected to each – for example, the word ‘pit’ can be attached to ‘peach’, ‘arm’ and ‘tar’.<\/p>\n
Alcohol helps remove parameters which surround a problem, allowing more creative thought, researchers said.<\/p>\n
However, while alcohol boosted creativity it decreased ‘executive function’. This may impede tasks that require motor skills, such as painting or dancing.<\/p>\n
“Anecdotal reports link alcohol intoxication to creativity,” Mathias Benedek, from the University of Gras, was quoted as saying by ‘The Telegraph’.<\/p>\n
“Alcohol impaired executive control, but improved performance in the Remote Associates Test,” said Benedek, lead author of the research was published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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