How much of a narcissist are you? Take this quiz if you'd like to find out (though that, in itself, might be a red flag).
Psychologists define narcissism as a specific kind of personality trait, and they use a test called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) to measure it. In a study coming out this fall, researchers from Cornell looked for a relationship between narcissism and creativity. Are creative people, they asked, necessarily more self-absorbed?
In the first of three experiments, the researchers had subjects fill out the same kind of quiz you may have just taken. Then they measured subjects' creativity with such apparently standard tests as "Draw a really wacky alien" and "How many uses can you think of for a brick?" The result: there was no link between narcissism and creativity. (Whew.) Unsurprisingly, though, narcissists rated their own creativity very highly.
In the second experiment, subjects who ...
