A study by psychologists Jens Förster, Kai Epstude and Amina Özelsel, from the University of Amsterdam, reveals that love changes our way of thinking and enhances creativity . Specifically, the experiments of Förster and his team show that the feeling of love favors the global processing of information , which takes place mainly in the right hemisphere of the brain, enhancing creative thinking while inhibiting analytical thinking .
According to the researchers, this effect is opposite to that of sexual desire , which increases analytical thinking and reduces creativity. Researchers attribute these differences to the fact that romantic love requires a long-term perspective, while sex prepares the brain for a short-term perspective, "here and now."
