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Wang, Jianpan; Fan, Lianghuo; Xu, Binyan

doi:10.1142/9789814713955_fmatter

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“…Although his aggressive tendencies may have caused him problems at the time, they also contributed to his intense and passionate personality, which he channeled into his creative writing (Baker, 1969). Additionally, in the work The Naughty Boys at the Crossroads , Wang (2006) wrote over 100 cases of famous scientists and innovators, including Nobel Prize winners, who had experienced a mischievous or even aggressive childhood but finally made outstanding scientific creative achievements after a psychological transformation.…”

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Transforming aggression into creativity: Creative thinking training as a new strategy for aggression intervention

Wu,

Yang,

et al. 2023

PsyCh Journal

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Although reducing students' aggressive behaviors and improving their creativity are both important commitments of educators, they are usually treated independently as unrelated tasks. However, cumulative evidence suggests potential links between aggression and creativity, not only from the perspectives of personality traits and psychological development, but also from their shared cognitive mechanisms. This implies that there may be an approach to achieving these two goals through a single intervention. Moreover, this new approach may overcome the limitation of the usually adopted aggression intervention, which is limited in its regulatory effectiveness and might bring about some disadvantageous impacts on creativity that are closely associated with aggression. To test this possibility, the present study implemented a four‐session, 2‐week creative thinking training (CTT) intervention for students with high aggression scores to examine whether it could simultaneously downregulate aggression and increase creativity. Our results demonstrate that, compared to the control group, the intervention group experienced significant improvements in creativity and a reduction in aggression following the CTT intervention. Furthermore, our findings suggest that this regulatory effect can persist for up to 6 months. The CTT‐induced creativity change (increase) could significantly correlate with and predict the CTT‐induced aggression decrease, thus suggesting that the CTT could transform aggression into creativity.

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confidence: 99%