Love and romantic relationships are the core inspiration for countless literary and artistic works, including poems, songs, novels and movies. Over the past few decades, some psychology researchers have conducted studies aimed at better understanding the effects that love, or more specifically, passionate love, can have on people’s creativity.
Inspired by previous works, a research group at Shaanxi Normal University in Xi’an, China recently carried out a study that explored the possibility that romantically involved couples may perform better on creative tasks than other randomly paired human subjects. Their findings, published in Springer Link’s Current Psychology journal, suggest that lovers typically collaborate far better than strangers on shared creative tasks.
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