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Creativity and Personality: Suggestions for a Theory
Abstract
An attempt is made in this article to relate creativity to personality in a much more definitive way than has been done previously and to use the known correlates of personality to suggest a theory of creativity that would explain many of the phenomena associated with this concept. A causal chain is suggested reaching from DNA to creative achievement, based largely on experimental findings not usually considered in relation to creativity (e.g., latent inhibition). Inevitably, the model is highly speculative, but it is testable and hence may prove useful in not only accounting for many observations and experimental results but also in suggesting new experiments and observations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Eysenck, H. J.
- Venue
- Psychological Inquiry
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1993-07
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 147-178
- ISSN
- 1047-840X (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7965
- OpenAlex
- W1964396601
- Cited by
- 671
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 27.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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