First off, we loathe the word 'creatives' because it's, well, not too creative.
The study focused on the attitudes of creative people toward death and it's got a bit of a clickbait title but there's more to it than that. (Science Daily: Can creativity beat death? New study suggests creatives worry less about dying)
The second part of the title isn't so terrible but that first question is nothing but bait. Nobody's researching 'beating death' but rather studying attitudes toward it.
Now research, conducted by Rotem Perach, a postgraduate researcher at Kent's School of Psychology under the supervision of Dr Arnaud Wisman, shows that those with high levels of creative ambition and achievement are particularly likely to be more resilient to death concerns.
In what is thought to be the first empirical study of the anxiety-buffering functions of creativity among people for whom creativity constitutes a central part of their cultural worldview, the research analysed findings from a group of 108 students.
The study focused on the attitudes of creative people toward death and it's got a bit of a clickbait title but there's more to it than that. (Science Daily: Can creativity beat death? New study suggests creatives worry less about dying)
The second part of the title isn't so terrible but that first question is nothing but bait. Nobody's researching 'beating death' but rather studying attitudes toward it.
Now research, conducted by Rotem Perach, a postgraduate researcher at Kent's School of Psychology under the supervision of Dr Arnaud Wisman, shows that those with high levels of creative ambition and achievement are particularly likely to be more resilient to death concerns.
In what is thought to be the first empirical study of the anxiety-buffering functions of creativity among people for whom creativity constitutes a central part of their cultural worldview, the research analysed findings from a group of 108 students.
- Science Daily
From the Rockhouse view, a creative person is anyone who makes stuff. Some do it a lot and others don't feel the inclination. Why that happens is for poetry books and that's fine but we're interested in the consequences.
The students completed two questionnaires to gauge their level of creative achievement and creative ambition. Those with a record of creative achievement, coupled to high levels of creative ambition, were found to make less death associations in their thought processes after thinking about their own demise in comparison to those in the control condition.
- Science Daily
There was some speculation in the article that confidence in an enduring legacy yields resilence to death but they weren't surveying established artists; the study group was entirely students who were not established at all except for their desire to do it.
My own legacy is not enduring but that's never been an impediment to recording just one more thing. My own attitude toward death may seem lackadaisical and it is but that doesn't come from thinking my work will live beyond me or anything of that nature.
My own view is creative people are probably more likely to feel fulfilled in what they're doing and are less likely to feel they have failed the Creator or anything of that nature. It's not that creative people beat a fear of death but rather they never had one in the first place.
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