I have little to reply to Amabile's very reasonable comments. She is right in saying that my target article falls short of actually presenting a theory of but I attempted to offer only suggestions for a She is also right in stating that direct empirical data are in relation to many of my suggestions-and to many deductions that would follow from the theory. Some of her queries are answered elsewhere, if only because the target article was already much longer than usual. Thus, the difference between high-P scorers and psychotics was discussed at length elsewhere (H. J. Eysenck, 1992); there is a large body of evidence relevant to this point, and it could not be dealt with in a paragraph or two. How does personality give rise to cognitive style, like overinclusion? How, specifically, do both give rise to creativity? Amabile's questions are very much to the point; I can only give a tentative answer. As I mentioned in the target article and described in more detail in my psychoticism article (H. J. Eysenck, 1992), schizophrenia and psychoticism are both quite closely correlated with mechanisms like negative priming (Beech, Baylis, Smithson, & Claridge, 1989; Beech & Claridge, 1987) and latent inhibition (Baruch, Hemsley, & Gray, 1988; Lubow, 1989). These are well-documented mechanisms that produce cognitive inhibitions needed to control overinclusiveness, and diminished or missing in schizophrenics, schizotypals, and high-P scorers. Perhaps here we have the crucial agents that mediate between personality (high P) and cognitive style implicit in trait creativity. My analysis of product creativity is indeed perfunctory and clearly owes much to Amabile's componential theory; I have little to contribute on that score, and I wanted to get to trait creativity, where I conceive my major contribution to lie. What would constitute testability of my model? It clearly predicts a fairly close relation between trait creativity and (lack of) latent inhibition and/or negative priming; these would be interesting experiments. The literature shows that dopamine antagonists increase and dopamine agonists decrease latent inhibition and negative priming; do these substances have a similar effect on creativity? These and many similar experimental paradigms emerge from my attempt to formulate a testable theory; when they have been tested, we shall know more about its value.