Psychologists Li Huang and Adam Galinsky, from Northwestern University, have shown that clashes in mind and body can actually be useful and help us to think more creatively.The study entitled “Mind-Body Dissonance: Conflict Between the Senses Expands the Mind’s Horizons” was published in Social Psychological & Personality Science Journal.Their work suggests that conflicts between the emotions created by the body and the emotions elicited by other sources, such as music and memory, do not just influence what we think but how we think. Huang and Galinsky’s findings suggest that mind-body dissonance has a positive payoff.