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.
This book brings together essays by experts to illustrate the nature of negative creativity.
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 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 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 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.
“From fine art to nuclear weapons and nuclear power, from crime to
careers of creative geniuses, this respectably academic yet
immensely entertaining book suggests that the Devil does indeed
have the best tunes. In today’s world of ever-shrinking resources
and ever-mounting constraints we need creativity more than ever
before, but the editors and the contributors have done all of us
great service by warning of the disruption, pain, and danger that
it may leave in its wake, not least to the creative people
themselves.”
– Paul Ekblom, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
“An intriguing intellectual journey into the mad genius and
sometimes psychopathically deviant roots of creativity.”
– J. Reid Meloy, University of California, San Diego
“The question of the role of creativity’s ‘dark side’ is one of the
most important yet understudied phenomena in the social sciences.
Indeed, in this age of corruption, financial meltdowns, and
technological advances that outstrip our ability to understand
them, are there more important topics in the study of creativity
than ethics, unintended consequences, and potentially negative
outcomes of creativity and innovation? I think not. This excellent
volume provides a first-rate summary of the state of the art
regarding these topics, and many of the chapters provide insightful
analyses of where additional work is needed. The chapters are
written by authors with wide-ranging backgrounds, who are among the
leading thinkers on these topics from around the world. Speaking of
diversity of perspective, kudos to the editors for including a
chapter that questions whether there really is a dark side of
creativity at all!”
– Jonathan Plucker, Indiana University
“This is one of the most important books on creativity to be
published over the last twenty years; its list of editors and
contributors stands for high-quality chapters. With the ‘dark side’
illuminated from many different facets, a vastly neglected aspect
of creativity has been opened for scholarly discussion. The volume
offers an inspiring source and starting point for further research,
bringing together a still much broader range of disciplines – since
all realms and areas of human thinking and acting owe their
benevolent, and malevolent, progress to creative persons, be it
scientists, artists, politicians, or engineers, etc. Deep insights
and knowledge about the ‘dark side of creativity’ as provided here
may help to generally develop more responsibility and more wisdom
in dealing with creative motives, actions, processes, and products
in the interest of a more humane human cultural evolution.”
– Klaus K. Urban, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
"....highly recommend.... The title of the book is simple enough to
understand, and gives a thorough treatment of the issues negative
to creativity; the content deserves more respect and acknowledgment
than is currently given. If you read a chapter every night before
going to sleep, bedtime stories will never be the same again."
–Current Issues in Creativity Research, Kimberly T. Cardina, State
University of New York/Buffalo State
"....The Dark Side of Creativity is a refreshing book with original
insights.... easy to go beyond its boundaries and connect to other
related ideas about creativity that have been circulating lately. I
would recommend the book to anyone interested in creativity."
--Stephen J. Guastello, PsycCRITIQUES
"....provide interesting reading but also reveal the chaotic state
of research on creativity.... these essays shed light on the many
ways in which scholars in the field think about negative
creativity--and their many areas of disagreement. A valuable
contribution to the literature on creativity...."
- P. Flattau, Institute for Defense Analyses, CHOICE
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