Editing Comedian (section)

==Personality traits==
In a January 2014 study, conducted in the ''[[British Journal of Psychiatry]]'',  scientists found that comedians tend to have high levels of [[psychotic]] personality traits. In the study, researchers analyzed 404 male and 119 female comedians from [[Australia]], [[United Kingdom|Britain]], and the [[United States]]. The participants were asked to complete an online questionnaire designed to measure psychotic traits in healthy people. They found that comedians scored "significantly higher on four types of psychotic characteristics compared to a control group of people who had non-creative jobs." Gordon Claridge, a professor of experimental psychology at the [[University of Oxford]] and leader of the study claimed, "the creative elements needed to produce humor are strikingly similar to those characterizing the cognitive style of people with psychosis—both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder."<ref name=Kelland-Psychotic>{{cite news|last=Kelland|first=Kate|title=Comedians have psychotic personality traits, study finds|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-comedians-psychotic-idUSBREA0F00M20140116|access-date=31 January 2014|newspaper=Reuters|date=16 January 2014}}</ref> However, labeling comedians' personality traits as "psychotic" does not mean that individual is a psychopath,<ref name=Seubsaeng-Study>{{cite news|last=Suebsaeng|first=Asawin|title=Study Says Comedians Have Psychotic Personality Traits—Here's What Some Comedians Have To Say About That|url=https://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/01/study-comedians-psychotic-traits-rob-delaney-steve-hofstetter|access-date=31 January 2014|newspaper=Mother Jones|date=18 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=Cooper-White>{{cite news|last=Cooper-White|first=Macrina|title=Comedians Have 'High Levels' Of Psychotic Personality Traits, New Study Shows|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/comedians-psychotic-personality-traits_n_4610414.html|access-date=31 January 2014|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=17 January 2014}}</ref> since [[psychopathy]] is distinct from [[psychosis]], and neither does it mean their behavior is necessarily pathological.