The dark side of creativity / edited by David H. Cropley [and others].

"With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 The Dark Side of Creativity: What Is It? -- Failure to recognize the existence of the dark side -- The Bright Side of Creativity -- The Dark Side -- Inherent Negative Aspects of Creativity -- Negative Aspects of Process -- Negative Aspects of Person -- Moral Darkness -- Practical Remedies Against the Dark Side -- Closing Overview -- References -- 2 Creativity Has No Dark Side -- Defining Creativity -- Divergent Thinking and the Dark Side as Options and Ideas -- Relativity, Values, and Conventionality -- Displaced Investments -- Intentions and Decision Making -- What Creativity is and What it is not -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Positive Creativity and Negative Creativity (and Unintended Consequences) -- The Utility of Distinguishing Positive and Negative Creativity -- Major Positive Aspects of Positive and Negative Creativity -- Creative and Domain Skills in Positive and Negative Creativity -- Situational Activation of Negative Creative Goals -- Perceived Autonomy/Control -- Climate/Support/Threat -- Perceived Fairness -- Cultural Influences -- Transformational Leadership -- Conclusions and Implications -- References -- 4 Subjugating the Creative Mind: The Soviet Biological Weapons Program and the Role of the State -- Introduction -- Biological Weapons Soviet-style -- Soviet Bioweaponeers -- Motivations and Intentions -- Retrospection:160;Justification or Regret? -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Imagining the Bomb: Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Weapons, and the Assimilation of Technological Innovation -- Beyond the Dark Side -- Technology and Society -- Robert Oppenheimer -- A Scientific Vision for the Atomic Age -- The Atomic Bomb and Early Cold War Politics -- References -- 6 The Innovation Dilemma: Some Risks of Creativity in Strategic Agency -- Flexibility and Commitment -- Learning and Creativity -- Ball Bearings -- Sellers Remorse -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 Early Creativity as a Constraint on Future Achievement -- Success and Creativity: Generating Insights from Organizational Learning -- Creativity as a Constraint: Identifying the Psychological Mechanisms -- Past Success and Cognitive Frames -- Affective Consequences of Past Success -- Past Success and Role Constraints -- Past Success and Group Creativity: When the Effects of Success Depend on How you Explain It -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 8 Boundless Creativity -- Meaning -- Motivation -- Ethics -- Countering Antisocial Creativity -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Reviewing the Art of Crime: What, If Anything, Do Criminals and Artists/Designers Have in Common? -- What is Creativity, and What do Artists and Designers and Criminals have in Common? -- Opportunism and Risk Taking -- Breaking the Paradigm -- Problem Solving -- The Dark Side of Creativity: case Studies from the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) -- The Dark Side of Creativity: More Case Studies from Art and Design -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Creativity in Confinement -- Malevolent Creativity and Confinement -- The Emotional Impact of Confinement -- The Definition of Creativity in a Correctional Environment -- Creativity and Contraband.

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