SciShow Psych | Alcohol Can Enhance Creativity—But at a Cost

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Episode Title: Alcohol Can Enhance Creativity—But at a Cost
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Description: Go to http://curiositystream.com/psych to start streaming [Master Of Wine]. Use the promo code ‘psych’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free. As some say, "write drunk, and edit sober," many writers and artists use alcohol to try to get their creative juices flowing. But can alcohol really help to be more creative? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/writers-digest-archives/did-hemingway-say-write-drunk-edit-sober-nope-he-preferred-to-write-sober https://xkcd.com/323/ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ballmer%20Peak http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2006/01/7701.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychology-yesterday/201801/why-do-writers-drink-so-much https://indigo.uic.edu/bitstream/handle/10027/8434/NRN_Heinz_MS_v3_LWedit_1302278591_46_without__changes_final.pdf?sequence=1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2573696 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hbm.24073 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ana.24181 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2014.00055/full https://www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.15288/jsa.2005.66.663 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523220/ https://www.remote-associates-test.com/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810012000037 https://www.alcohol.org/dui/bac-limits/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4084861/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810016303713 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1423036 https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/index.htm https://www.businessinsider.com/drinks-before-driving-if-bac-is-05-2013-5 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2003.00363.x https://www.researchgate.net/publication/20933625_Alcohol_Myopia_Its_Prized_and_Dangerous_Effects Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/closeup-glass-with-alcohol-in-cocktail-bar-gm974765782-265169023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin#/media/File:Serotonin-Spartan-HF-based-on-xtal-3D-balls-web.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine#/media/File:Dopamine_3D_ball.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/tequila-shot-with-lime-and-salt-on-a-dark-background-selective-focus-copy-space-gm1085963326-291373305 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-with-glass-of-whiskey-and-cigar-gm924594628-253741550 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/refreshing-vodka-cranberry-cocktail-gm1129505393-298394599 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Aminobutyric_acid#/media/File:GABA_3D_ball.png https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/manager-gm494563009-40727376


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