The dark side of creativity

 Content: 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.
 Abstract:             
              This book brings together essays by experts to illustrate the nature of negative creativity.                 Read more...