Creativity and Morality (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kapoor, Hansika; Kaufman, James C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Creativity and Morality summarizes and integrates research on creativity used to achieve bad or immoral ends. The book includes the use of deception, novel ideas to commit wrongdoings across contexts, including in organizations, the classroom and terrorism. Morality is discussed from an individual perspective and relative to broader sociocultural norms that allow people to believe actions are justified. Chapters explore this research from an interdisciplinary perspective, including from psychology, philosophy, media studies, aesthetics and ethics.

• Summarizes research on creativity used for immoral purposes
• Identifies individual and sociocultural perspectives on morality
• Explores creativity in business, education, design and criminal behavior
• Includes research from psychology, philosophy, ethics, and more

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780323856683
• Artikelnr.: 66259357

Autorenporträt

Hansika Kapoor, PhD, is Research Author at the Department of Psychology at Monk Prayogshala - a not-for-profit academic research institution in Mumbai, India. She holds a PhD from IIT, Bombay in the area of dark creativity; specifically, her thesis explored the measurement, facets, and process components of negative creativity through behavioral and electrophysiological methods. She is the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2019-2020), through which she pursued more research on dark creativity at the University of Connecticut with Prof. James C. Kaufman. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed scholarly works, several in international academic journals, such as Creativity Research Journal, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Personality and Individual Differences. She also regularly contributes to popular media publications, including Aeon Magazine, Psychology Today, Mint, and Firstpost. Dr. Kapoor has been cited as a subject matter expert in numer

ous features on social and cognitive psychology in the Indian context. Her research interests lie in cognitive, social, and moral psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I. INTRODUCTION 1. The AMORAL model of dark creativity 2. An interdisciplinary perspective on creativity and morality 3. Beyond malevolent and benevolent: Why creativity and morality have more in common than we expect 4. Morality and creativity

SECTION II. CREATIVITY, MORALITY, AND THE ARTS 5. The relation between aesthetic and moral sensitivity 6. Can you or will you imagine? Ability and willingness to imagine fictional scenarios depends on the type of imaginary world 7. Video games, morality, and empathy

SECTION III. CREATIVITY, MORALITY, AND ORGANIZATIONS/TECHNOLOGY 8. Counterproductive work behaviors and creativity 9. The relationship between creativity and (un)ethical behaviors among employees and leaders 10. Creativity and morality in the world of technology: The intersection of creativity, design, and responsible problem solving

SECTION IV. DARK INFLUENCES ON CREATIVITY AND MORALITY 11. Creativity and individual and tribal ethical behavior 12. Creativity, malevolent creativity, and the Dark Triad 13. The intersection of morality, creativity, and deception

SECTION V. CREATIVITY, MORALITY, AND THE SELF 14. The mixed moral implications of the creative identity 15. The intersections of creativity and complex moral/immoral emotions 16. Morality and creativity