Investigating the prosocial psychopath model of the creative personality: Evidence from traits and psychophysiology

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Personality and Individual Differences

Volume

100

First Page

28

Last Page

36

Publication Date

10-1-2016

Abstract

The prosocial psychopath model of creativity (Galang, 2010) proposes that some highly creative personalities share certain neuropsychological features in common with people who are described as having psychopathic traits. A key part of the model predicts that psychopathy-related traits such as risk-taking behavior and lowered autonomic response as measured by electrodermal activity (EDA) in the context of risk will be related to creativity. Three studies are reported here that show evidence for the model. The results of Studies 1 and 2 indicate that traits related to psychopathy, specifically Boldness, correlate with creative achievement. Study 3 demonstrated that reduced EDA lability during the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT; Bechara et al., 1994) predicted better divergent thinking scores. Together, studies support the basic claims of the model regarding the link between emotional disinhibition and creativity. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd

html

Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.081

Disciplines

Psychology

Note

Corrigendum: The authors regret the errors which concern Tables 2 and 4 and the references made to them in the text. The rows in both tables were mislabelled, and the correct labels are show below:[table presented] Paragraph 3 of Section 2.5 should now read: “The correlations at the level of specific creative domains (Table 2) reveal something interesting regarding humor as a creative activity. Among the domains, it is the only one that is consistently and positively correlated with all three dark triad traits. This validates the findings of Veselka, Schermer, and Vernon (2011) which suggests that humor forms part of the social repertoire of dark personalities, either as a display of impulsive aggression, or to exercise social influence (Veselka, Schermer, Martin, and Vernon, 2010; Martin, Lastuk, Jeffrey, Vernon, and Veselka, 2012).” The last sentence of paragraph 2 of Section 3.5 should now read: “Given that the variance in Disinhibition is mostly related to the domain of Humor, the fact that there was no significant difference between males and females on the Humor CAQ scores (t = − 1.46, p = 0.15) means that we cannot simply attribute the observed sex differences to a lack of female representation in this field.” Finally, the following reference entries should be added: Martin, R. A., Lastuk, J. M., Jeffery, J., Vernon, P. A., & Veselka, L. (2012). Relationships between the Dark Triad and humor styles: A replication and extension. Personality and Individual Differences, 52(2), 178–182. Veselka, L., Schermer, J. A., Martin, R. A., & Vernon, P. A. (2010). Relations between humor styles and the Dark Triad traits of personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 772–774. Veselka, L., Schermer, J. A., & Vernon, P. A. (2011). Beyond the Big Five: The dark triad and the supernumerary personality inventory. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 14, 158–168. All other parts of the article and its major claims remain consistent and well supported. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Keywords

Creative ability—Psychological aspects

Upload File

wf_no

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS