Creativity and Morality
- 1st Edition - October 27, 2022
- Editors: Hansika Kapoor, James C. Kaufman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 6 6 7 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 6 6 8 - 3
Creativity and Morality summarizes and integrates research on creativity used to achieve bad or immoral ends. The book includes the use of deception, novel ideas to commit wrongd… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCreativity and Morality summarizes and integrates research on creativity used to achieve bad or immoral ends. The book includes the use of deception, novel ideas to commit wrongdoings across contexts, including in organizations, the classroom and terrorism. Morality is discussed from an individual perspective and relative to broader sociocultural norms that allow people to believe actions are justified. Chapters explore this research from an interdisciplinary perspective, including from psychology, philosophy, media studies, aesthetics and ethics.
- Summarizes research on creativity used for immoral purposes
- Identifies individual and sociocultural perspectives on morality
- Explores creativity in business, education, design and criminal behavior
- Includes research from psychology, philosophy, ethics, and more
Researchers in social psychology and personality, applied psychology, industrial/organizational behavior
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Explorations in Creativity Research
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. Creativity, morality, and the AMORAL model
- A: antecedents
- M: mechanisms (individual)
- O: operants (environmental)
- R: realization
- A: aftereffects
- L: legacy
- Chapter 2. Morality and creativity overlapping in beneficial and harmful ways: an interdisciplinary exploration
- Creativity as multidimensional
- Ethics and morality as multifaceted
- Interdisciplinary inquiry illuminating the ethics-creativity overlap
- Can interdisciplinary exploration clarify the ethics-creativity overlap?
- Concepts from various disciplines: connections with creativity and morality
- Reductive megalomania and sterile certainty
- Creating mass deception to tear down democracy
- Macroproblems, panoramic scanning, and cognitive diversity
- Moral-legal overlap
- The chaos-order continuum
- Concluding thoughts
- Chapter 3. Positive creativity as the intersection between creativity, intelligence, and wisdom
- Positive, negative, and neutral creativity
- Teaching for positive creativity
- Discussion of why and how positive creativity helps the world and negative creativity hurts it
- Role modeling from your own life—positive and negative
- Positive contrasted with negative major real-world examples
- Projects
- Discussion of how to recognize positive versus negative creativity
- Conclusion
- Part II. Dark influences on creativity and morality
- Chapter 4. Malevolent creativity: personality, process, and the larger creativity field
- Creativity's inner demons
- Creative personalities
- Processes for creativity
- Creative outcomes
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. The Dark Tetrad and malevolent creativity
- The Dark Tetrad
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. The nexus of morality and creativity vis-à-vis deception: a cognitive framework
- Morality, deception, and creativity
- Activation-decision-construction-action theory
- Applying ADCAT to understand research on morality, creativity, and deception
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Creativity and morality in deception
- Introduction
- The interpretation of deception has real consequences
- Defining deception
- The building blocks of deception
- The development of deceptive skills in children and adults
- Deception as a creative act
- The ethics of deceiving
- Practical implications for exploiting an enhanced understanding of deception
- Conclusions
- Part III. Creativity, morality, and the self
- Chapter 8. The mixed moral implications of the creative identity: how the creative identity can lead to moral and immoral behavior
- Creativity and morality
- The creative identity and its content
- Moral implications of the creative identity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. The intersections of creativity and complex moral emotions
- Introduction
- Effect of sympathy on creative originality
- Effects of pride, embarrassment, and shame on creative performance
- Creativity, moral emotions, and social evaluation
- Empathy and creativity
- Creativity and complex moral emotions: future directions
- Chapter 10. Monsters and the moral psychology of the “other”
- Monsters and the moral psychology of the “other”
- Predatory monsters
- Monsters of contagion
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11. The creativity-morality nexus: a complexity perspective
- Defining creativity and morality
- Multiple approaches to examine the creativity-morality nexus
- Main findings on the creativity-morality nexus
- Concluding remarks
- Part IV. Creativity, morality, and the arts
- Chapter 12. Can you or will you imagine? Ability and willingness to imagine fictional scenarios depend on the type of imaginary world
- What is most difficult to imagine, murder, magic, or illogicality?
- Study 1 discussion: it's complicated
- Can't or won't?
- Study 2 discussion: it's both, and context matters
- General discussion
- Appendix
- Chapter 13. Creating morality through play: digital games, moral perspective-taking, and empathy
- Introduction
- Games and moral perspective-taking
- Games, creativity, and moral perspective-taking
- Case studies
- Conclusion
- Part V. Creativity, morality, and organizations/technology
- Chapter 14. The relationship between creativity and (un)ethical behavior: a literature review and future directions
- Introduction
- How does an individual's creativity influence his or her own (un)ethical behavior?
- How does an individual's creativity influence others' (un)ethical behavior?
- How does an individual's (un)ethical behavior influence his or her own creativity?
- How does an individual's (un)ethical behavior influence others' creativity?
- Discussion
- Chapter 15. Creativity and morality in the world of technology: the intersection of creativity, design, and responsible problem-solving
- Creativity and the role of ethics/morals
- Ethics and morals in creativity and design
- Creativity and engineering design
- Constraint versus freedom
- The role of constraints in engineering design
- Engineering design and ethical constraints
- Moral agency and corporate morality
- Engineering design: safety and risk
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 330
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 27, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323856676
- eBook ISBN: 9780323856683
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Hansika Kapoor
Hansika Kapoor, PhD, is Research Author at the Department of Psychology at Monk Prayogshala - a not-for-profit academic research institution in Mumbai, India. She holds a PhD from IIT, Bombay in the area of dark creativity; specifically, her thesis explored the measurement, facets, and process components of negative creativity through behavioral and electrophysiological methods. She is the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2019-2020), through which she pursued more research on dark creativity at the University of Connecticut with Prof. James C. Kaufman. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed scholarly works, several in international academic journals, such as Creativity Research Journal, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Personality and Individual Differences. She also regularly contributes to popular media publications, including Aeon Magazine, Psychology Today, Mint, and Firstpost. Dr. Kapoor has been cited as a subject matter expert in numerous features on social and cognitive psychology in the Indian context. Her research interests lie in cognitive, social, and moral psychology.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Author, Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, IndiaJK
James C. Kaufman
James C. Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author/editor of more than 45 books and 300 papers, which include theoretical contributions such as the Four-C Model of Creativity (with Ron Beghetto) and empirical work, such as the study that spawned the “Sylvia Plath Effect. He is a past president of Division 10 (Society for Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts) of the American Psychological Association (APA). James has won many awards, including Mensa’s research award, the Torrance Award from the National Association for Gifted Children, and APA’s Berlyne, Arnheim, and Farnsworth awards. He co-founded two major journals (Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts and Psychology of Popular Media Culture). He has tested Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s creativity on CNN, appeared in the hit Australian show Redesign Your Brain, narrated the comic book documentary Independents, and is set to appear in a 2021 Netflix documentary. He wrote the book and lyrics to Discovering Magenta, which had its NYC premiere in 2015, and co-authored a book on bad baseball pitchers with his father.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Education Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USARead Creativity and Morality on ScienceDirect