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from Part IV - The Psychometrics of Creativity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2020
Chapter 11 examines the role of personality in creativity. Researchers have examined two general questions concerning the relationship between personality and creativity. First, are there any components of personality that distinguish creative individuals from the noncreative? Those components would comprise “the creative personality.” The chapter begins with a review of research that has tried to specify the creative personality, including recent developments in theories of personality. The most important issue addressed in this area is the role in creativity of the personality characteristic of “openness to experience.” There are several difficulties that arise when one tries to specify the personality traits that are related to creativity, and we will address those issues. The second question addressed by researchers is how personality plays a role in real-time creative activities. We will review research examining how personality traits might support creativity. Here, too, researchers face many thorny issues in trying to specify the mechanisms that might connect personality traits to creative achievement.
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