**5.6 Link between mood states and creativity**

Creativity is a multifaceted construct, in which different moods influence distinct component of creative thoughts.

Mood shifts are crucial in scaling creativity. The activating moods induce more creative fluency and originality (i.e. novelty) than deactivating moods.

Based on the above discussion in Section 4, we state that the long-pending debates on g-factor of Spearman can be replaced by the new conjecture as follows:

• **Kumar's conjecture:** g-factor should be replaced by mood which, under favorable mental condition, can generate sufficient mental/neural energy inside the brain to activate different cognitive activities.

Thus, "g" of **Figure 2** is replaced by "mood" and generate a modified three stratum approach to Cattell-Horn-Carrol (CHC) theory of intelligence shown in **Figure 3**.

**Figure 3.** *Modified three stratum approach to C-H-C theory of intelligence.*
