Peacocks, Picasso, and Parental Investment: The Effects of Romantic Motives on Creativity

Four experiments explored the effects of mating motivation on creativity. Even without other incentives to be creative, romantic motives enhanced creativity on subjective and objective measures. For men, any cue designed to activate a short-term or a long-term mating goal increased creative displays...

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Published in:	Journal of personality and social psychology 2006-07, Vol.91 (1), p.63-76
Main Authors:	Griskevicius, Vladas, Cialdini, Robert B, Kenrick, Douglas T
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Animals Arousal Biological and medical sciences Biological Evolution Birds Choice Behavior Cognition. Intelligence Courtship - psychology Creativity Cues Effects Emotions Experiments Family studies Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Goals Human Human Mate Selection Human Sex Differences Humans Incentives Investments Long term Love Male Mating Motivation Objectives Parent-child relations Parental Investment Parenting Parenting - psychology Parents & parenting Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Regression analysis Self-Presentation Sex Characteristics Sexual behavior Sexual Behavior, Animal Sexual reproduction Social Desirability Social psychology Students - psychology Subjectivity Women
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