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From Page 14 Abuse and Alcoholism, alcoholic fathers and their sons were actually less creative than non-alcoholic fathers and sons.
“Creative people may be alcoholic, but alcoholics are rarely creative,” said Dr. Ernest Noble, a UCLA researcher w ho led the study. “I suspect that we tend to look at great writers under a magnifying glass and if one out of a hundred turns out to be alcoholic, then we focus on that one particular interesting aspect and blow it out of proportion,” he added.
Noble’s study is one of the first to take a pragmatic approach to creativity and alcoholism.
The scientists found no differences among the three groups on I.Q. tests, but the recovering alcoholics and their sons (who had never been alcoholic) received low’er scores than the other two groups on a number of measures that tested creativity.
Noble does not discount the effect alcohol may have on imagination. He notes that, for instance, a glass of wine does make one less inhibited and more prone to the free association of new ideas.
(Editors note: This research was originally published in the J uly/August issue of Alcohol.)
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