Table 2.

Correlation between heart rate/mood and creative thinking (n = 51).

		Heart rate	Mood changes			Changes in divergent thinking			Changes in convergent thinking (Matchstick test)
			Pleasure	Relaxation	Vigor	Fluency	Flexibility	Originality
Heart rate		1	− 0.388**	− 0.019	− 0.134	0.146	0.122	0.096	0.126
Mood changes	Pleasure		1	0.120	0.248	0.044	0.064	0.105	0.479***
	Relaxation			1	0.533***	0.127	0.051	− 0.037	0.213
	Vigor				1	− 0.060	− 0.157	− 0.105	0.221
Changes in Diverged thinking	Fluency					1	0.952***	0.250	0.152
	Flexibility						1	0.322*	0.215
	Originality							1	0.169
Changes in convergent thinking (Matchstick test)									1

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.