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Creative people sleep more, later, and less well "In the case of verbally creative people, we found that  they sleep more hours and go to sleep and get up later." Do you ever dream of becoming the next Picasso? A new study at the University of Haifa comparing art and social science students has found that visually creative students evaluate their sleep as of lower quality. "Visually creative people reported disturbed sleep leading to difficulties in daytime functioning," explains doctorate student Neta Ram-Vlasov, one of the authors of the study. "In the case of verbally creative people, we found that they sleep more hours and go to sleep and get up later. In other words, the two types of creativity were associated with different sleep patterns. This strengthens the hypothesis that the processing and expression of visual creativity involves different psychobiological mechanisms to those found in verbal creativity." One of the leading approaches...

www.itsnicethat.com Psychologists have discovered that when two strangers meet and interact  for  the first time, the extent to which they develop mutual understanding  depends  on how much they talk and ask questions rather than on non-verbal  cues such  as gestures or exchanging glances. Over my career I've read several books on or attended seminars about the importance of non-verbal communication as well as how to read a person's body language.  By implication, this knowledge helps control or model a person's own body language to communicate a wanted affect. We each use these skills - most likely without thinking about it - in our own day-to-day relationships and are an important tool for investigators and interviewers - who do think about it. But simply talking, asking and answering questions and listening is also very important.  According to this research, more important than reading or projecting body-language. So here'...