Narcissists Make Better Artists, Study Says, Surprising No One

A pretty successful artist named Pablo Picasso once said to one of his friends: "God is really an artist, like me... I am God, I am God, I am God." Some people might qualify a statement like this as a sign of gratuitous and perhaps delusional self-obsession. In essence, it's a bit narcissistic. Yi Zhou, a Florida State University professor, would agree. And while such exceptionally high self-interest isn't the only characteristic that led to Picasso becoming one of the most iconic names in the h...