ArticleThe Journal of creative behavior2021
Creative, Antagonistic, and Angry? Exploring the Roots of Malevolent Creativity with a Real-World Idea Generation Task.
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- Antecedents of malevolent creativity: a meta-analysis of personality and press predictors.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
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- Childhood trauma and malevolent creativity: the mediating role of positive psychological capital and gender differences.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Field dependent-independent cognitive style as a predictor of malevolent creativity: a multifaceted approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Generating, evaluating, endorsing, and implementing malevolent creativity: a malevolent idea journey.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
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- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting the postcentral gyrus reduces malevolent creative ideation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Decision-making approaches in the antagonistic digital communication of the online communities users.Social network analysis and mining · 2023Article
- The Effect of Infectious Disease Threat on Malevolent Creativity.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
- Childhood Trauma and Malevolent Creativity in Chinese College Students: Moderated Mediation by Psychological Resilience and Aggression.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
- Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in Offenders.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Failure to reappraise: Malevolent creativity is linked to revenge ideation and impaired reappraisal inventiveness in the face of stressful, anger-eliciting events.Anxiety, stress, and coping · 2021Article
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Abstract
Research is currently witnessing more investigations into malevolent creativity-creativity that is used to intentionally harm others. Inspired by previous methods to measure malevolent creativity, in the present study, we introduce a real-world behavioral task designed to capture individuals' capacity for using creativity for the purpose of attaining malevolent goals in response to everyday, provocative situations. In a sample of 105 students, we found malevolent creativity positively correlated with fluency in conventional creative ideation, as well as with self-reported typical malevolent creativity behavior in daily life. Moreover, performance on the malevolent creativity task showed positive correlations with the maladaptive personality trait of antagonism (PID-5) as well as individuals' state anger at the beginning of the experiment. Further, our multiple regression analysis revealed that conventional creative ideation, antagonistic personality, and state anger all explained unique, non-overlapping variance in the capacity for implementing malevolent creativity. As a whole, these findings suggest that different cognitive and affective factors, along with specific personality traits may each contribute to the expression of malevolent creativity in distinct ways. Future investigations striving to further decode the destructive potential of individuals toward others may benefit from this validated behavioral measurement approach to malevolent creativity.
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