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25 Post author: PhilGoetz 04 August 2009 11:36PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 05 August 2009 03:48:41AM *  0 points [-]

By coincidence, just after writing this, I read an article ("Why are modern scientists so dull?") claiming that creativity and psychoticism are strongly positively correlated. The explanation offered was different: that psychoticism (by which they seem to mean being a sociopath, not being mentally unstable) enables one to be more independent.

Comment author: HughRistik 05 August 2009 07:32:04PM *  0 points [-]

Link?

In this context, Psychoticism is probably the trait from Eysenck's 3 factor model of personality.

Psychoticism corresponds to a combination of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness from the Big Five.

Here's a web test for Eysenck's personality inventory. My results:

  • Extroversion (sociability) |||||||||||||| 60%
  • Neuroticism (emotionality) |||||||||| 36%
  • Psychoticism (rebelliousness) |||||||||||| 45%