Social exclusion increases antisocial tendencies: Evidence from retaliatory ideation in a malevolent creativity task.

Perchtold‐Stefan, Corinna M.; Fink, Andréas; Rominger, Christian; Papousek, Ilona

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“…While several studies reported higher malevolent creativity in men compared to women (Harris & Reiter‐Palmon, 2015; Perchtold‐Stefan, Fink, et al., 2021a; Zhao et al., 2022), Perchtold‐Stefan et al. (2022b) revealed that social exclusion increased harmfulness in malevolent creativity specifically in women. The authors also reported that women implemented more social/relational aggression into their malevolent creativity ideas, whereas men's ideas focused more on physical aggression (Perchtold‐Stefan et al., 2023).…”

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“…All open-ended scenarios reflect the idea that malevolent creativity is more easily elicited in settings where individuals are wronged or provoked by others (Baas, Roskes, Koch, Cheng, & De Dreu, 2019;Harris & Reiter-Palmon, 2015). Validity of the MCT was confirmed by significant associations with verbal divergent thinking, antisocial personality traits, angry mood, and dysfunctional emotion regulation of anger (Perchtold-Stefan, Fink, et al, 2021a, 2021bPerchtold-Stefan et al, 2022a, 2022b. In all experiments, participants' written responses were coded for fluency (i.e., number of ideas that conformed to malevolence instructions), degree of malevolence (1 = slightly malevolent; 4 = highly malevolent), and originality (1 = very unoriginal, 4 = very original) by four to five independent and experienced raters.…”

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“…Given that the fairly robust links between malevolent creativity and antisocial behavior (aggressiveness, antagonistic personality, dark triad, Kapoor & Kaufman, 2022; Perchtold‐Stefan, Fink, Rominger, & Papousek, 2021a) imply at least subclinical pathology on this “darker side” of creative ideation, it seems reasonable to further investigate malevolent creativity along this spectrum. Accordingly, Perchtold‐Stefan, Fink, Rominger, and Papousek (2022b) showed that higher malevolent creativity in a psychometric test was positively linked with aspects of schizotypy, particularly impulsive non‐conformity characterized by eccentric antisocial behavior, while Kapoor and Kaufman (2022) found self‐reported malevolent creativity behavior positively linked to psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism. These links with pathology‐prone personality provide crucial insights into the cognitive and motivational underpinnings of malevolent creativity (e.g., reduced inhibition, less empathy, willingness to break societal rules, risk‐taking, etc.).…”

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“…to allow for a more specific interpretation of findings. As gender effects have been considered in both depression (Essau, Lewinsohn, Seeley, & Sasagawa, 2010;Piccinelli & Wilkinson, 2000) and malevolent creativity (Perchtold-Stefan, Fink, et al, 2021aFink, et al, , 2021bPerchtold-Stefan et al, 2022b;Zhao et al, 2022), gender and respective interactions between gender and depressive symptoms were added as covariates to all statistical models. METHODS PARTICIPANTS Data were collected from three different experiments conducted between 2018 and 2020 (see Table 1).…”

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Depressive Symptoms are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation

Perchtold‐Stefan

Rominger

Fink

2023

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Depressed mood has attracted little attention in creativity research. By comparison, psychotherapeutic studies have repeatedly associated depressive symptomatology with increased revenge ideation. Combining creativity and retaliatory ideation, the present study examined whether self-reported subclinical depressive symptoms are linked to malevolent creativitycreativity used for the purpose of damaging othersin a psychometric test. In a sample of n = 259 participants, overall depressive symptoms were positively associated with malevolent creativity. Sensitivity analyses confirmed this link for motivational and interactional symptoms, but not cognitive symptoms of depression. As a gender-specific finding, malevolent creativity was positively linked to emotional symptoms of depression in women, but not men. Our findings hint at the possibility that mood impairments through depressive symptoms may facilitate malevolent creative ideation through increased impulsivity, reduced self-regulation, and protracted anger rumination. Following recommendations regarding more focused investigations into the vast research complex of psychopathology and creativity, this study emphasizes negative mood as a risk factor for the occurrence of harmful creative ideation, and thus, presents a novel perspective on the intricate link between internalizing and externalizing symptomatology.

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Depressive Symptoms are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation

Perchtold‐Stefan

Rominger

Fink

2023

Journal of Creative Behavior

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“…This negative information, however, may be assigned with positive value, driving one's curiosity and will result in new rewarding knowledge. In the same manner, this may explain cases of dark or malevolent creativity, in which novel ideas aimed at damaging others (Perchtold-Stefan, Fink, Rominger, & Papousek, 2022).…”

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A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity: Response to the commentators

Ivancovsky,

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Bar

2024

Behav Brain Sci

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In our target article, we proposed that curiosity and creativity are both manifestations of the same novelty-seeking process. We received 29 commentaries from diverse disciplines that add insights to our initial proposal. These commentaries ultimately expanded and supplemented our model. Here we draw attention to five central practical and theoretical issues that were raised by the commentators: (1) The complex construct of novelty and associated concepts; (2) the underlying subsystems and possible mechanisms; (3) the different pathways and subtypes of curiosity and creativity; (4) creativity and curiosity “in the wild”; (5) the possible link(s) between creativity and curiosity.

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The mediating role of hostile attribution bias in social exclusion affecting aggressive behavior

Quan,

Zhou,

Gou

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Aggressive Behavior

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Aggression is one of the public social issues affecting campus harmony and stability, and social exclusion is an important interpersonal contextual factor among many factors affecting aggression. However, studies examining the influence of social exclusion on aggression and its mediating mechanism are not systematic enough. Based on the general aggression model (GAM), we intend to explore the role of hostile attribution bias (HAB) in both trait and state levels of social exclusion, which leads to aggression through a combination of questionnaire and experimental methods. Study 1 surveyed 388 current high school students (Mage = 16.09, SD = 1.01) and found that HAB mediates the relationship between long‐term social exclusion (trait level) and aggression tendency. Study 2 experimented with 181 high school students (Mage = 16.95, SD = 1.13) to examine whether short‐term social exclusion (state level) after initiating the Cyberball paradigm could still influence aggressive behavior through the mediating role of HAB. Results found that the mediating role of HAB still holds. The findings of the study further enrich the GAM and have important implications for a more targeted approach to aggression prevention and intervention.

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Social exclusion increases antisocial tendencies: Evidence from retaliatory ideation in a malevolent creativity task.

Cited by 13 publications

References 87 publications

Depressive Symptoms are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation

Depressive Symptoms are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation

A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity: Response to the commentators

The mediating role of hostile attribution bias in social exclusion affecting aggressive behavior

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