This is the best pre-St. Patrick’s Day news you could ask for. A new study from the University of Illinois Chicago suggests that drinking may actually aid your creativity and problem solving skills.
UIC researchers discovered that people who fall just under the legal limit of .08 outperformed their sober counterparts on word association problems. Here’s the experiment that associate professor of psychology and principal investigator Jennifer Wiley conducted along with colleagues:
“If you get a little tipsy, people are significantly better at finding weird, remote answers,” Wiley says.
Now, before you get hammered and try do to your taxes, keep in mind that the subjects were just under the legal limit. Still, it’s comforting to know that there might be a creative upside to intoxication.
[via UIC News]
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