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Humor Begets Creativity

Apparently, laughing can make you more creative. As author and professor Avner Ziv reported in his article, “Facilitating Effects of Humor on Creativity,” (Journal of Educational Psychology, volume 68, issue 3), he conducted a test in which he had students listen to a comedian and then do a creativity test. Compared to the control group which didn’t listen to the humorous set, the laughing students performed more creatively.

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