Creative people are more likely to be dishonest, because they feel entitled, according to a series of recent studies conducted by Lynne C. Vincent at Syracuse University and Maryam Kouchaki at Northwestern University. In one study, 153 MBA students completed a word-association task commonly used to measure creativity, then received a message about their performance that 1) said creativity is rare, 2) said creativity is common, or 3) did not mention creativity. They then played a game with an anonymous partner where they could send either a truthful message and receive $2 or a blatantly deceptive message and receive $5. The participants who were told that creativity is rare were more than twice as likely to lie to their partners than were participants in the other two groups.
Source: Why Creative People Are More Likely to Be Dishonest
