Neurotic Individuals are not Creative Thinkers.

In the September 2015 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Perkins et al. [1] proposed that the personality trait of neuroticism stems from individual differences in neural processes that govern the nature of self-generated thought (SGT). They also asserted that higher levels of neuroticism are associated with higher levels of creativity, especially intellectual creativity and creative problem solving, and that this association can be explained in terms of SGT. In this letter, we highlight some serious problems with Perkins et al.’s proposal.