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According to conventional wisdom the line between genius and madness is a very thin one. Now a study suggests the line may be even more blurred than previously thought.
The study, conducted by psychologists at De La Salle University in Manila, found creative people are indeed flawed.
According to the research led by Adrianne John Galang they are more likely to display antisocial traits such as dishonesty and risk taking.
Huffington Post reported that 503 participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire which could pick up individuals with psychopathic and narcissistic tendencies. A second study looked for indications of disinhibition, boldness and meanness among 250 college students.
The third study, involving 93 participants, tracked levels of excitement during gambling exercises from the amount of electricity conducted by their skin.
According to the results, which were published in Personality and Individual Differences journal, psycopathic boldness is integral to some creative personalities.
Creative people were found to show more psychopathic traits, such as boldness, the researchers concluded.
“Generally then, a creative field might not just shape a person into a more arrogant or dishonest personality, it might be actively selecting them, not for the sake of having disagreeable traits, but because such traits meaningfully co-vary with creativity itself.”
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