In fact, teachers have been found to display a clear preference for students who show less creativity. Research has shown that creative students tend not to be favored by teachers. Judgments of a teacher's favorite student were negatively correlated with creativity, and judgments of a teacher's least favorite student were positively correlated with creativity. While teachers said that they liked creative students, they (somewhat bafflingly) defined creativity using terms like well-behaved and conforming. When given adjectives more typically used to describe creative people, the teachers said that they dislike these kinds of students.