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4. One of the most interesting findings: See,

for example, (1) Gregory J. Feist, “A Meta-

Analysis of Personality in Scientific and

Artistic Creativity,” Personality and Social

Psychology Review 2, no. 4 (1998): 290–309;

(2) Feist, “Autonomy and Independence,”

Encyclopedia of Creativity, vol. 1 (San Diego,

CA: Academic Press, 1999), 157–63; and

(3) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity:

Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

(New York: Harper Perennial,

1996), 65–68. There are some studies showing

a correlation between extroversion and

creativity, but in contrast to the studies by

MacKinnon, Csikszentmihalyi, and Feist,

which followed people whose careers had

proven them to be exceptionally creative

“in real life,” these tend to be studies of college

students measuring subjects’ creativity

in more casual ways, for example by analyzing

their personal hobbies or by asking

them to play creativity games like writing a

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