Malevolent Creativity: Does Personality Influence Malicious Divergent Thinking?

Lee, Sherman A.; Dow, Gayle T.

doi:10.1080/10400419.2011.571179

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“…4 6 , p = .6 4 , g* = .0 8 . Similar to the finding by Lee and Dow (2011), gender related to MC, r(129) = -.16, p = .034. Using a t test, there was a marginally significant difference in the number of malevolently creative ideas that males and females generated (MMale = .62, SDMale = 1-10; MFemale = .30, SDFemale = .82; f(127) = 1.85, p = .067, g* = .33).…”

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confidence: 85%

Fast and furious: The influence of implicit aggression, premeditation, and provoking situations on malevolent creativity.

Harris¹,

Reiter‐Palmon²

2015

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Being intentionally harmful in original ways has been termed "malevolent creativity." The empirical study of malevolent creativity is still in its infancy, so developing a strong foundation of its antecedents is paramount. Three factors were identified as potentially influencing the generation of malevolently creative ideas: implicit aggression, which is aggression that is beyond one's conscious awareness; premeditation, a facet of impulsivity that pertains to the degree of planning and forethought an individual engages in before acting; and situations that condone or otherwise provoke the use of malevolent creativity. Consistent with our hypotheses, and in accordance with the theory of trait activation, a 3-way interaction among those factors was obtained. Specifically, the interaction indicates that individuals who are more implicitly aggressive and less premeditative are more likely to be malevolently creative in response to situations that provoke malevolent creativity.

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confidence: 85%

Fast and furious: The influence of implicit aggression, premeditation, and provoking situations on malevolent creativity.

Harris¹,

Reiter‐Palmon²

2015

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

117

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“…Although both groups are high in P, it should be possible to distinguish between them from a Big Five perspective, given that there is evidence that Eysenck's P is a composite of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and, to a lesser extent, openness (Saggino 2000). Consistent with the literature, we would expect highly creative persons to score high on openness to experience and low on agreeableness (e.g., Silvia et al 2012;Feist 1999;Karwowski and Lebuda 2016;Karwowski et al 2013), while those who are more cardinally described as lawbreakers would be primarily characterized by low agreeableness and conscientiousness (Decuyper et al 2009;Miller and Lynam 2001;Lee and Dow 2011).…”

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confidence: 58%

Personality predictors of creative achievement and lawbreaking behavior

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This article investigates how Big Five personality traits are related to creative achievements and lawbreaking behavior in a large sample (N = 1669) of Polish adults. Structural equation modelling with personality modelled as a bi-factor structure demonstrated a weak, yet significant link (r = .21) between latent factors of creative achievements and lawbreaking behavior. A general factor of personality was unrelated to creative achievement, but negatively linked to lawbreaking behavior. Lawbreaking behavior was also negatively predicted by conscientiousness and agreeableness, while only openness positively predicted creative achievement. A person-centered analysis illustrated three distinct personality profiles: resilient, undercontrolled, and overcontrolled that differed in both lawbreaking behavior and creative achievements.

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“…Although literature in the creativity-personality domain is vast, for the purposes of this investigation a truncated, yet relevant account is provided. Recent research has found associations between malevolent creativity and trait physical aggression (Lee & Dow, 2011); implicit aggression; low premediation (Harris & Reiter-Palmon, 2015); and low emotional intelligence (Harris, Reiter-Palmon, & Kaufman, 2013). Other work has identified relationships between negative creativity and Dark Triad of personality, in particular with subclinical psychopathy (Kapoor, 2015;Kapoor & Khan, 2016).…”

Section: Person: Goals and Personalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relationships between creativity and the other traits are more inconsistent, but specific. Low conscientiousness has been associated with malevolent creativity (Lee & Dow, 2011), and with creativity in general (Feist, 1998). Extraversion has been positively associated with creativity (Batey & Furnham, 2006;Feist, 1998;Silvia et al, 2011); and emotional instability or neuroticism has been found to enhance artistic creativity, but was likely to impede scientific and everyday creativity (Feist, 1998;Furnham, 2015).…”

Section: Person: Goals and Personalitymentioning

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Creators and Presses: The Person–Situation Interaction in Negative Creativity

Kapoor

Khan

2018

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Given the recent emphasis on exploring valence in creative behavior, this study examines negative creativity via a person–situation interactionist perspective. By manipulating goal valence (uses or misuses) and object valence (positive or negative), four conditions of an adapted Divergent Thinking task were used to predict positive and negative creativity. Participants (N = 178, 103 females, Mage = 23.82, SD = 4.03, range: 18–38) responded to a single condition along with the Big Five and Dark Triad personality scales in a between‐groups design. Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed that goal and object valence significantly explained variance in valences of creative responses, beyond individual differences of personality. Furthermore, the congruence between goal and object valence predicted valenced creativity; that is, the positive objects and goals condition yielded more positive‐original ideas, and the negative objects and goals condition yielded more negative‐original ones. Object valence alone (material presses) did not contribute significantly to explaining valenced creativity. Negative‐original responses were inversely related to conscientiousness, and directly to intellect/imagination and secondary psychopathy. Thus, negative creativity was attributed relatively more to person as compared to situation variables. Results are discussed from a valence‐based and interactionist perspective.

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Malevolent Creativity: Does Personality Influence Malicious Divergent Thinking?

Cited by 101 publications

References 75 publications

Fast and furious: The influence of implicit aggression, premeditation, and provoking situations on malevolent creativity.

Fast and furious: The influence of implicit aggression, premeditation, and provoking situations on malevolent creativity.

Personality predictors of creative achievement and lawbreaking behavior

Creators and Presses: The Person–Situation Interaction in Negative Creativity

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