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What do psychopaths and creatives have in common?

Author: Matthew Davis / Source: Big Think

  • History is full of anecdotes of unempathetic and arrogant geniuses, from Beethoven to Picasso.
  • An emerging stream of research has uncovered that many creative people are not successful in spite of their unpleasant personalities, but because of them — at least in part.
  • Clarifying the relationships between psychopathic personality traits and creative success can help us understand what goes into genius.

They say you should never meet your heroes. There’s plenty of reasons why, but in the case of your creative heroes, it might be because they’re jerks.

The idea of the “cantankerous creative” has likely been around since the first arrogant caveman learned to make fire. Pablo Picasso carried around a revolver loaded with blanks that he’d fire at people he disliked. H.P. Lovecraft was a staggering racist, even for his time. Thomas Edison happily electrocuted an elephant to discredit his rival, Nikola Tesla. It seems like creative people — whether gifted in the visual arts, science, writing, or what have you — are often thoroughly unpleasant people.

While creative success may make one bigheaded, an emerging stream of research is showing that creativity and being a real jerk may actually have a more intimate relationship. In fact, for some people, being a bit of a psychopath might nudge one toward creative success.

The artistic psychopath

One study in particular has shed light on the link between creativity and psychopathy. Published in Personality and Individual Differences, in the spring of 2017, A.J.R. Galang’s study looked at creative success and how it matched up with the so-called Dark Triad of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.

Participants were instructed to indicate how much they agreed with a given statement presented over a series of surveys designed to measure both creative achievements (with statements like “My work has been critiqued in a national publication”) and Dark Triad personalities (with statements like “Payback needs to be quick and nasty”). Galang found that creative achievement in a variety of arts, ranging from creative writing to the culinary arts, was consistently associated with higher narcissism and psychopathy.

Prior evidence showed that narcissists tended to inflate their successes on such questionnaires,…

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