Heart-Rate Variability in Creative Functioning
- 1 August 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 29 (1) , 160-162
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1971.29.1.160
Abstract
Average creativity scores for each of 20 Ss in this experiment correlated .49 with a measure of heart-rate variability monitored during an inkblot task. It was suggested that cardiac variability may be greater in the more creative Ss because they shift more from realistic to imaginal modes of thinking than do relatively less creative Ss.Keywords
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