Creativity and Morality

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CREATIVITY AND MORALITY
Explorations in Creativity Research
CREATIVITY AND MORALITY
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
I - Introduction
	1 - Creativity, morality, and the AMORAL model
		A: antecedents
		M: mechanisms (individual)
		O: operants (environmental)
		R: realization
		A: aftereffects
		L: legacy
			Moving forward
		References
	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
		References
	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
		References
II - Dark influences on creativity and morality
	4 - Malevolent creativity: personality, process, and the larger creativity field
		Creativity\'s inner demons
		Creative personalities
		Processes for creativity
		Creative outcomes
		Conclusion
		References
	5- The Dark Tetrad and malevolent creativity
		The Dark Tetrad
			Narcissism
			Psychopathy
			Machiavellianism
			Sadism
		Conclusion
		References
	6 - The nexus of morality and creativity vis-à-vis deception: a cognitive framework
		Morality, deception, and creativity
			Moral/immoral behavior
			Creativity and deception
		Activation-decision-construction-action theory
			Activation component
			Decision component
			Construction component
			Action component
		Applying ADCAT to understand research on morality, creativity, and deception
			Development of moral deception
				Rise with age in altruistic lies, decline in antisocial lies
				Priming honesty through gain frame induction via parables
			Creative personalities and deception
			Pathological liars, narcissists, and the creativity of their deceptions
		Conclusion
		References
	7 - Creativity and morality in deception
		Introduction
		The interpretation of deception has real consequences
			Our interpretation of deception establishes our laws
			Our attitude toward deception affects public discourse about our governance
			Personal morality frames our use of deception and vice versa
			Societal normalization of deception has significant real-world consequences
		Defining deception
			Is it feasible to deceive oneself?
		The building blocks of deception
		The development of deceptive skills in children and adults
			Four levels of deception
			The development of lying in children
			Deception in adults
		Deception as a creative act
		The ethics of deceiving
			The view that deception is always wrong
			The view that deception is sometimes legitimate, desirable, and even necessary
			The ubiquity of prosocial deception
			Where in the deceptive process do moral and ethical considerations arise?
		Practical implications for exploiting an enhanced understanding of deception
		Conclusions
		References
3 - Creativity, morality, and the self
	8 - The mixed moral implications of the creative identity: how the creative identity can lead to moral and immoral  ...
		Creativity and morality
		The creative identity and its content
		Moral implications of the creative identity
			The creative identity can lead to immoral behaviors
			The creative identity can lead to moral behaviors
		Conclusion
		References
	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
		Acknowledgments
		References
	10 - Monsters and the moral psychology of the “other”
		Monsters and the moral psychology of the “other”
		Predatory monsters
		Monsters of contagion
			Contagion monsters as symbolic threats
		Conclusion
		References
	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
			No correlation between creativity and morality
			Negative correlation between creativity and morality
			Positive correlation between creativity and morality
		Concluding remarks
		Acknowledgment
		References
4 - Creativity, morality, and the arts
	12 - Can you or will you imagine? Ability and willingness to imagine fictional scenarios depend on the type of imag ...
		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
			Study 1
			Morally deviant worlds
			Fantastical worlds
			Unusual worlds
			Study 2
				Morally deviant world
					Death on a freeway
				Fantastical world
					Feed the dragons
				Dystopian world
					Wolves in London
				Conceptually contradictory world
					The Tower of Goldbach
		References
	13 - Creating morality through play: digital games, moral perspective-taking, and empathy
		Introduction
			Defining terms: perspective-taking, empathy, and compassion
		Games and moral perspective-taking
		Games, creativity, and moral perspective-taking
		Case studies
			Animal Crossing: New Horizons
			Minecraft
			Life is Strange 2
			Red Dead Redemption 2
			Miitopia
			Spiritfarer
		Conclusion
		References
V -  Creativity, morality, and organizations/technology
	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?
			Moral disengagement
			Psychological entitlement
			Perceived creative credit
			Moral imagination
		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?
			Feeling unconstrained by rules
			Abstract thinking
		How does an individual\'s (un)ethical behavior influence others\' creativity?
			Leaders\' ethical behavior influences employees\' creativity: LMX and intrinsic motivation
			Leaders\' unethical behavior influences employees\' creativity: creative self-efficacy and psychological safety
		Discussion
			Investigating how to achieve the coexistence of creativity and ethical behavior
			Further exploring how an individual\'s creativity influences others\' (un)ethical behavior
			Exploring the role of cultural context in the relationship between creativity and ethics
			Investigating the relationship between innovation and (un)ethical behavior
			Considering the role of artificial intelligence in the workplace
		References
	15 - Creativity and morality in the world of technology: the intersection of creativity, design, and responsible pr ...
		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
			Utilitarianism
			Duty Ethics
			Rights Ethics
			Virtue Ethics
		Moral agency and corporate morality
		Engineering design: safety and risk
			Addressing ethical constraints in engineering design
		Conclusion
		References
Conclusion
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