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Creativity and affective illness: an objection.

A Rothenberg
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A good deal of attention has recently been given to two studies purportedly showing a connection between creativity and affective illness. In both cases, there have been inadequate (or absent) controls, biased selection procedures, single interviewer-experimenter bias, and, in one study, misrepresentative use of statistics. We have published contrary experimental results which, on a statistically significant level, differentiate creative thinking and creativity from psychopathological modes of response.

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A Rothenberg. 1995. Creativity and affective illness: an objection.. https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1995.80.1.161

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