It’s a funny title. but I’m not persuaded.
The research, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, stopped short of labeling creative types as jerks, but it didn’t paint a pretty portrait of some aspects of their personalities, either. Psychologists asked more than 1,300 college students to complete a personality test and various creativity questionnaires. The data they collected was self-reported and measured creative abilities mainly in arts, crafts, drama, and creative writing.
The researchers looked at how six different personality traits influenced creativity. They found an openness to experience is the personality characteristic with the largest influence on creativity, a result seen in previous studies. Extroversion had a smaller effect, while emotionality and conscientiousness made no difference.
Agreeableness, which indicates that people can compromise, sympathize and get along well with others, also had no effect. But honesty-humility was shown to have a negative influence on creativity.
“Our research didn’t find a huge effect, and we certainly aren’t claiming that all creative people are insufferably arrogant but, on average, people with a lot of creative accomplishments were less humble and modest,” says Paul Silvia, an associate professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the study’s lead author.
Why should the be humble and modest? They create while other non-creative types consume what creative types produce. I think its that everyone else is jealous of the creative types and is just hating.
I guess thats way pregnant women are so smug.