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Creative types in mathematics 1
Author(s) -
Helson Ravenna,
Crutchfield Richard S.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1970.tb00003.x
Subject(s) - psychology , harmony (color) , unconscious mind , personality , social psychology , id, ego and super ego , developmental psychology , psychoanalysis , visual arts , art
S ummary Five types of creative mathematician are identified on the basis of the subjects' own Q ‐sort descriptions of their research style Personality and background correlates of each type are presented. Whereas descriptions of the mother had differentiated creative from comparison mathematicians, traits of the father were important in the differentiation of the creative types Relative to one another, one type is “adapted,” one is “conflicted,” and three are about equally “creative,” these labels being taken from the Rankian paradigm The “creative” types are described, after Neumann, on the basis of the relation between ego and unconscious One is described as matriarchal and two as patriarchal Of the two patriarchal, one emphasizes “Puritan” achievement‐orientation, the other “Mediterranean” intellectual breadth and harmony.