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ArticleJournal of Intelligence2026

Self-Reports of Past Malevolent Behavior and Narcissism as Predictors of Malevolent Creativity on a Real-World Ideation Task.

Natalie A Ceballos, Ruby N Sweet, Carmen E Westerberg

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Article in Journal of Intelligence, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Natalie A CeballosDepartment of Psychology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8022-6653
Ruby N SweetDepartment of Psychology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA.
Carmen E WesterbergDepartment of Psychology, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Creativity has a dark side-malevolent creativity (MC), which is the application of original ideas to purposely harm others; i.e., creative problem-solving with malicious intent. Here, the influence of past MC behavior on MC ideation was examined while controlling for other individual-level factors relevant to the AMORAL model of MC. College undergraduates (

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AMORAL modeldark triaddivergent thinkingidea generationmalevolent creativityproblem solving

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PMID42646022
PMCPMC13514611

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