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December 16, 2014 Being in a Good Mood Can Help You Think Outside the Box Research participants who were in a positive mood were about 50% more likely than those in a negative mood to break out of a rigid mind-set that they had been trained to adopt in solving number problems, says a team led by Julia S. Haager of the University of Munich in Germany. Specifically, unhappy participants were less likely to notice that there was a hidden shortcut for solving the problems. A positive mood appears to strengthen alternative ways of thinking and behaving, the researchers say. SOURCE: Overcoming fixed mindsets: The role of affect

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