Citation

Tyagi V, Hanoch Y, Hall SD, Runco M, Denham SL. Front. Psychol. 2017; 8: e145.

Affiliation

Cognition Institute and School of Psychology, Plymouth University Plymouth, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Frontiers Research Foundation)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00145

PMID

28217103

Abstract

Risk taking is often associated with creativity, yet little evidence exists to support this association. The present article aimed to systematically explore this association. In two studies, we investigated the relationship between five different domains of risk taking (financial, health and safety, recreational, ethical and social) and five different measures of creativity.

RESULTS from the first (laboratory-based) offline study suggested that creativity is associated with high risk taking tendencies in the social domain but not the other domains. Indeed, in the second study conducted online with a larger and diverse sample, the likelihood of social risk taking was the strongest predictor of creative personality and ideation scores. These findings illustrate the necessity to treat creativity and risk taking as multi-dimensional traits and the need to have a more nuanced framework of creativity and other related cognitive functions.

Language: en

Keywords

DOSPERT; creativity; domain specificity; risk taking; social risks