A study on the relationship between personality type, sense of humor and creativity

A relationship between sense of humor, personality type and creativity is hypothesized. Surveys were given to engineering design students in a product development course offered at MIT. Linear correlations were found between an intuitive personality subtype and creative achievement, as well as between Gough Creativity Index and a self-defeating sense of humor style. Artificial Neural Network methods were employed to further map inputs of humor style and personality type to creativity. The thinking personality subtype was found to have greatest impact on creative achievement, though affiliative humor style also was noted as the next main contributing factor to creative achievement.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Greenberg, Holly C

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Maria C. Yang.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45838

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/45838