Frequency of dream recall (fDR) correlated with a creativity score on the Remote Associates Test (RAT). This correlation was lowered by anxiety which correlated positively with fDR but negatively with the RAT scores. Control for the biasing effect of anxiety was accomplished by a partial correlation which increased the fDR-RAT correlation.
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