Cantankerous creativity: Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and the HEXACO structure of creative achievement

Paul J. Silvia; James C. Kaufman; Roni Reiter-Palmon; Benjamin Wigert

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Cantankerous creativity: Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and the HEXACO structure of creative achievement

Paul J. Silvia, James C. Kaufman, Roni Reiter-Palmon, Benjamin Wigert

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Creativity research has suggested that creative people are low in agreeableness. To explore this issue, we applied the HEXACO model of personality structure, which offers an expanded representation of interpersonal traits, particularly a distinction between Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness. A sample of 1304 adults completed the HEXACO-60 and several measures of creative achievement and activities. Latent variable models found that Agreeableness had no relationship with creativity, but Honesty-Humility did: people lower in Honesty-Humility had higher creativity scores, consistent with past work on arrogance and pretentiousness among creative people.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	687-689
Number of pages	3
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	51
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.011
State	Published - Oct 2011

Keywords

Agreeableness
Creativity
HEXACO
Honesty-Humility
Personality

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