Malevolent Creativity: A Functional Model of Creativity in Terrorism and Crime
By David Cropley, James C. Kaufman, Arthur Cropley. 2008
313 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- James C. Kaufman
- R. Beghetto
- Mark A. Runco
- Paul J Silvia
- Gayle T. Dow
- Sherman A. Lee
- W. Niu
- Lily Cushenbery
In Social Psychology
- James C. Kaufman
- Sherman A. Lee
- W. Niu
- Lily Cushenbery
- Jeffrey J. Walczyk
- John Horgan
- Gayle T. Dow
- Samuel T. Hunter
Citations in the corpus
- Creativity of Chinese and American Cultures: A Synthetic Analysis. (2013, background): “An example would be malevolent creativity as discussed by Cropley, Kaufman, and Cropley (2008) — the idea that a creative act can be intentionally harmful.”
- Malevolent Creativity in Terrorist Organizations (2013, background): “Creative products are novel and generate effective surprise in their beholder while remaining relevant and useful (Cropley et al., 2008).”
- Malevolent Creativity: Does Personality Influence Malicious Divergent Thinking? (2011, background): “This can range from physical assault, to social manipulation, to terrorism (Cropley, Kaufman, & Cropley, 2008 ), involving, for example, an embezzler who employs creative behavior for personal gain at the cost of coworkers and stockholders to the novel use of airplanes as weapons in the attack on t”
- The Creativity of Lying: Divergent Thinking and Ideational Correlates of the Resolution of Social Dilemmas (2008, background): “Accordingly, Cropley et al. (2008) referred to the typical mindset that people possess regarding innovativeness as benevolent creativity; which by definition serves a prosocial purpose such as generating an elegant scientific theory, a beautiful painting of a landscape, a lovely aria, or a…”
- The Dark Side of Creativity (2015, background): “Cropley, Kaufman, and Cropley (2008) proposed the idea of malevolent creativity, which was creativity that was designed with the intent of harming others [8].”