Bad mood improves intelligence

As it turned out, a bad mood increases our intelligence. Australian researchers showed volunteers a neutral content of movies and movies about cancer and death. Then the volunteers were offered a variety of tasks. The result was that those who had fallen into a bad mood after watching a sad film, made fewer arithmetic mistakes, expressed best analytical ability and will to remember the events of the past.

By the way, in a bad mood and enhances creativity. The authors of another study with the help of some volunteers manipulation created good or bad mood. Those volunteers who had spoiled the mood created collages more creative than those who were in a good mood.

via factroom.ru