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The Art of Anger, by R. Corbett at Artnet Magazine

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It's called "mad genius" for a reason. A new study from the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology argues that anger makes us more creative. Researchers provoked anger in participants in a series of experiments and found that those who were agitated tended to think in "less systematic and structured" ways. They also tended to generate more original ideas when asked to complete a problem-solving task (the criterion being that less than one percent of other participants came up with the same idea).

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Kenneth Anger's Scarlet Woman, by R. Corbett and Artnet Magazine

 

But, there's a caveat to the benefits of rage. It tends to spur a burst of creative energy, but then diminishes mental resources and fizzles out fast. Sadness, on the other hand, has a stronger ability to sustain itself. Which is pretty depressing.

 

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I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (more...)
 

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The most interesting (to me) internal links by GLloyd Rowsey on Friday, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:23:58 AM