ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Motivational Factors in the Typical Display of Humor and Creative Potential: The Case of Malevolent Creativity.
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- The relationship between parental technoference and malevolent creative behavior among adolescents: the mediating role of phubbing and the moderating role of mindfulness.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of social exclusion on malevolent creativity among Chinese university students: the roles of empathy, moral disengagement, and teacher support.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Social Context of Malevolent Creativity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Research is still disputing if an individual's use of humor in everyday life is also indicative of his or her creative potential. To date, the focus has been mainly restricted to shared cognitive factors, while motivational aspects that may link the production of humor and of creative ideas have been largely neglected. Humor motivation implicates latent social goals the creator pursues through the use of humor. These goals can be benign or more malicious and manifest in an individual's typical display of comic styles. While often overlooked, creativity often serves social functions as well, especially in common everyday situations. Similar to humor, creativity is typically regarded as beneficial for individuals and society. Yet, creative ideas may also originate from less prosocial goals. This is reflected in the concept of malevolent creativity, where novel ideas are generated to deliberately harm others. The present study investigated individuals' typical display of humor, differentiated in eight distinct comic styles in relation to their productivity in a behavioral test for malevolent creativity and general creative potential (
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