“…Similar to the notion that the relationship between psychopathology and creativity depends on the symptoms and severity of psychopathology, researchers have indicated that, rather than schizophrenia, it is schizotypy 1 , a personality trait similar to schizophrenia symptoms but at a diminished level ( Debbane and Mohr, 2015 ), that explains general creativity 2 and creative performance ( Kaufman and Paul, 2014 ; Fisher, 2015 ; Wang et al, 2017 ). While schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder, schizotypy is a psychological construct that is characterized by the personality traits, such as magical ideation (the propensity to have non-conventional beliefs and accept causality not culturally valid), perceptual aberration (the distorted perception of body and objects), anhedonia, social withdrawal, eccentric behavior, and odd speech ( Schuldberg et al, 1988 ; Cox and Leon, 1999 ; Nelson et al, 2013 ).…”