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The Dark Side of Creativity

Arthur J. Cropley, Mark A. Runco, Keith James, Aisha Taylor, Maria N. Zaitseva, David Hecht, James M. Jasper, Jack A. Goncalo, Lynne C. Vincent, Pino G. Audia, Kevin Hilton, Lorraine Gamman, Maziar Raein, Jennie Kaufman Singer, Russell Eisenman, Dean Keith Simonton, Luis Daniel Gascón, James C. Kaufman, James R. Averill, Elma P. Nunley, Liane Gabora, Nancy Holmes, Robert J. Sternberg, Amihud Hari, David H. Cropley
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  • Date Published: June 2010
  • availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from July 2023
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521191715

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  • 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.

    • An intensive exploration of negative creativity - a radical approach to a popular topic
    • An interdisciplinary focus from international experts within psychology, sociology, engineering, criminal justice, literature, history and design education
    • Emphasis on the practical consequences of creativity, and guidelines on what can be done
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    • Date Published: June 2010
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521191715
    • length: 404 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 160 x 27 mm
    • weight: 0.66kg
    • contains: 8 b/w illus. 7 tables
    • availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from July 2023
  • Table of Contents

    1. The dark side of creativity: what is it? Arthur J. Cropley
    2. Creativity has no dark side Mark A. Runco
    3. Positive creativity and negative creativity (and unintended consequences) Keith James and Aisha Taylor
    4. Subjugating the creative mind: the Soviet biological weapons program and the role of the state Maria N. Zaitseva
    5. Imagining the bomb: Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear weapons, and the assimilation of technological innovation David Hecht
    6. The innovation dilemma: some risks of creativity in strategic agency James M. Jasper
    7. Creativity as a constraint on future achievement Jack A. Goncalo, Lynne C. Vincent and Pino G. Audia
    8. Boundless creativity Kevin Hilton
    9. Reviewing the art of crime - what, if anything, do criminals and artists/designers have in common? Lorraine Gamman and Maziar Raein
    10. Creativity in confinement Jennie Kaufman Singer
    11. Creativity and crime: how criminals use creativity to succeed Russell Eisenman
    12. So you want to become a creative genius? You must be crazy! Dean Keith Simonton
    13. Both sides of the coin?: personality, deviance, and creative behavior Luis Daniel Gascón and James C. Kaufman
    14. Neurosis: the dark side of emotional creativity James R. Averill and Elma P. Nunley
    15. Dangling from a tassel on the fabric of socially constructed reality: reflections on the creative writing process Liane Gabora and Nancy Holmes
    16. Creativity in the classroom: the dark side Arthur J. Cropley
    17. The dark side of creativity and how to combat it Robert J. Sternberg
    18. A systems engineering approach to counter terrorism Amihud Hari
    19. Malevolent innovation: opposing the dark side of creativity David H. Cropley
    20. Summary - the dark side of creativity - a differentiated model David H. Cropley.

  • Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses

    • Creativity and Innovation
    • Psychology of Creativity
  • Editors

    David H. Cropley, University of South Australia
    David H. Cropley is Deputy Director of the Defence and Systems Institute, University of South Australia, and a former officer in the UK's Royal Navy. He is the author, with Arthur Cropley, of Fostering Creativity: A Diagnostic Approach for Higher Education and Organisations.

    Arthur J. Cropley, University of Hamburg
    Arthur J. Cropley is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Hamburg and previously worked at the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Latvia. He has published extensively in a wide range of journals and is the author, co-author, or editor of 25 books, which have appeared in a total of 12 languages. He was the founding editor of the European Journal for High Ability (now known as High Ability Studies).

    James C. Kaufman, California State University at San Bernardino
    James C. Kaufman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the California State University at San Bernardino, where he directs the Learning Research Institute. Kaufman is the author or editor of 16 books, including Creativity 101, Essentials of Creativity Assessment (with Jonathan Plucker and John Baer), International Handbook of Creativity (with Robert J. Sternberg), and Applied Intelligence (with Robert J. Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko). He is a founding co-editor of the official journal for the American Psychological Association's Division 10, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. He is also the associate editor of Psychological Assessment and the Journal of Creative Behavior, the editor of the International Journal of Creativity and Problem Solving, and the series editor of the Psych 101 series.

    Mark A. Runco, University of Georgia
    Mark A. Runco is E. Paul Torrance Professor of Creativity and Gifted Education at the University of Georgia, Athens. He has also taught at the University of Hawaii, Hilo, and California State University, Fullerton. He is a Fellow and Past President of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association and the founder of the Creativity Research Journal, of which he remains editor-in-chief. Runco is currently co-editing the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Creativity.

    Contributors

    Arthur J. Cropley, Mark A. Runco, Keith James, Aisha Taylor, Maria N. Zaitseva, David Hecht, James M. Jasper, Jack A. Goncalo, Lynne C. Vincent, Pino G. Audia, Kevin Hilton, Lorraine Gamman, Maziar Raein, Jennie Kaufman Singer, Russell Eisenman, Dean Keith Simonton, Luis Daniel Gascón, James C. Kaufman, James R. Averill, Elma P. Nunley, Liane Gabora, Nancy Holmes, Robert J. Sternberg, Amihud Hari, David H. Cropley

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