Un article publié sur les tendances bipolaires et le potentiel créatif
Le laboratoire CREO a récemment publié un article dans Personality and Individual Differences explorant les liens entre les tendances bipolaires et le potentiel créatif. Nos résultats mettent en lumière un décalage intéressant : les traits hypomaniaques sont associés à une plus grande perception de sa propre originalité, alors que les mesures objectives révèlent plutôt un niveau d’originalité plus faible.
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The romanticized image of the creative “mad genius” has long positioned bipolar tendencies at the center of the narrative. Yet the literature reveals a mixed relationship between bipolar traits and original thinking. This study examines how hypomanic traits relate to subjective and objective originality. We tested whether hypomanic traits uniquely predict self-evaluation biases beyond cyclothymic traits and creative self-concept. Three hundred participants completed divergent thinking tasks and subsequently self-rated the originality of their ideas, capturing what we refer to as subjective originality. Objective originality was assessed using a validated automated scoring technique. Creative self-concept was measured with creative self-beliefs and achievements, alongside cyclothymic and hypomanic traits. The results revealed a positive association between hypomanic traits and subjective originality, even after controlling for creative self-concept and cyclothymia. In contrast, hypomanic traits were negatively associated with objective originality, suggesting a “creativity mirage”—a divergence between perceived and observed originality. Interactions revealed that the association between subjective and objective originality was positive among individuals with low hypomanic traits but negative among those with high hypomanic traits. These findings show the importance of distinguishing subjective from objective assessments of creativity, revealing that hypomanic traits could be related to biases in self-evaluations of originality.