Drinking A Cup Of Tea Could Make You More Creative - New Study

Feeling a bit short of ideas? You might want to make time to grab a cup of tea. A new study says that drinking a cup of tea can spark an immediate boost in creativity by putting people in a good mood.

Researchers from Peking University monitored 50 students, giving half a cup of black tea to drink, and the other half a glass of water, before asking them to complete two different tests.

The first test required the participants to create an ‘attractive and creative’ design using building blocks, and in the second test, they had to come up with a name for a new restaurant.

Their results were judged by other students for creativity and design, and marked on a scale by researchers.

In the building block test, those who drank tea scored 6.54 points, while those who drank water scored 6.03 points.

In the name test, the tea drinkers scored 4.11 against water drinkers’ average score of 3.78. Now, that’s not a massive difference.

But researchers also found that those who drank tea also came up with more ideas around each theme, indicating that tea could boost divergent thinking.

Researchers reckon this is thanks to caffeine and theanine in tea, which can have beneficial effects on attention, but also believe it’s down to tea’s mood-boosting properties. Sipping a cup of tea makes us happier, which in turn makes us more creative.

 

 

 

Source