The Dark Side of Creativity

by Edited by David H. Cropley , Arthur J. Cropley , James C. Kaufman , Mark A. Runco

• ISBN13: 9780521191715
• ISBN10: 0521191718
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780511771552
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The dark side of creativity: what is it?

Creativity has no dark side

Positive creativity and negative creativity (and unintended consequences)

Subjugating the creative mind: the Soviet biological weapons program and the role of the state

Imagining the bomb: Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear weapons, and the assimilation of technological innovation

The innovation dilemma: some risks of creativity in strategic agency

Creativity as a constraint on future achievement

Boundless creativity

Reviewing the art of crime - what, if anything, do criminals and artists/designers have in common?

Creativity in confinement

Creativity and crime: how criminals use creativity to succeed

So you want to become a creative genius? You must be crazy!

Both sides of the coin?: personality, deviance, and creative behavior Luis

Neurosis: the dark side of emotional creativity

Dangling from a tassel on the fabric of socially constructed reality: reflections on the creative writing process

Creativity in the classroom: the dark side

The dark side of creativity and how to combat it

A systems engineering approach to counter terrorism

Malevolent innovation: opposing the dark side of creativity

Summary - the dark side of creativity - a differentiated model

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