While it is logical to expect happy people to be more creative, SMU Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Ronald Bledow's research suggests that negative emotions may lead to particularly high levels of creativity. Additionally, Assistant Prof Bledow found in the course of his research that creativity cannot be rushed. In one study, he looked at student teams working on real world projects where the task was to come up with an innovative engineering solution. He was interested in the inception of originality, and how students who produced unique work behaved over the course of time. Assistant Prof Bledow notes that in their haste to produce results, many students do not immerse long enough in projects that entail open-ended outcomes. Though holding back may be uncomfortable for some students, his research shows that pressing the pause button may in fact be conducive for original ideas to develop.