Comedians Tend to Have Psychotic Personality Traits

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By Breanna Draxler
Jan 17, 2014 9:22 PMNov 20, 2019 1:20 AM
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I'm not anti-social; I'm hilarious! Image credit:Featureflash / Shutterstock Creative types tend to be a little crazy, right? Psychologists have now found that comedians actually demonstrate a lot of the same characteristics as people with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. As one of the researchers on the study, Gordon Claridge, told the Guardian,

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