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Are you ambivalent? Don’t worry, you could be creative!

08/Oct/2006: A new study has found that people who are emotionally ambivalent (experiencing a state of conflicting emotions at the same time, like feeling both love and hatred for an object or someone) are more creative than others who lack emotions, or those who experience only one emotion at a time.

Christina Tina Fong, an assistant professor at the University of Washington Business School, who carried out this study, said that people, who exhibit mixed emotions, interpret their experience as a signal that they are in an unusual environment and respond to this signal with their creative thinking abilities. She added that ambivalent people have an increased sensitivity for recognizing unusual associations around them, which others probably could not detect.

Fong said that workplace experiences in many organizations bring out mixed emotions from employees and this is perceived to be disadvantageous to the organization and to the employees exhibiting mixed emotions, but in reality ambivalent workers often react to the complexities at their workplaces with creativity.

The results of Fong’s study showed that even though there were no differences among ambivalent individuals and individuals who lack emotions or experience only one emotion at a time, emotionally ambivalent people performed significantly better on creative tasks.

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