Creative Activity, Personality, Mental Illness, and Short-Term Mating Success

摘要: It has been argued that creativity evolved, at least in part, through sexual selection to attract mates. Recent research lends support this view and also demonstrated a link between certain dimensions of schizotypy, creativity, short-term mating. The current study delves deeper into these relationships by focusing on engagement creative activity employing an expansive set personality mental health measures (Five Factor Model, anxiety, depression). A general tendency engage everyday forms was related number partners within the past year males only. Furthermore, Neuroticism were all indirectly mating success, again for provides additional predictions made theory men have higher drive display, is linked with success. contention illness may still exist gene pool because particular traits associated milder (i.e., & schizotypy) are directly