(STUDYFINDS) — Listening to your favorite band while chipping away at a presentation for work or your memoir may not lead to your best stuff. While it’s often thought that having background music on actually boosts creativity, a new study finds that it actually can do just the opposite.
Researchers from the United Kingdom and Sweden collaborated to examine how people fared in an activity testing verbal creativity while various types of music played in the background. The results were then compared to how the participants performed while everyday library sounds were being played, as well as while in silence.
