Creativity and Deviance: Communication and Interaction
Keywords:
creativity, deviance, creative deviance, antisocial creativity, integrated model of creativity and deviance
Abstract
We analyze the theories and concepts of creativity and creative potential. We discuss the personal characteristics that will contribute to malevolent creativity that causes harm to other people. Features of the socially-creative person are given: informal leadership; high values of emotional intelligence, cognitive and affective empathy and the search for novelty; low level of dependence on remuneration; flexible moral boundaries; Machiavellianism, the ability to manipulate others to achieve their own goals; a reasonable combination of selfishness and altruism. Approaches to understanding the creative potential and assessment of its components are considered, as well as personal and situational characteristics that promote the realization of creative potential for harming other people. As for personal characteristics that contribute to the realization of creative potential in deviant behavior, hostility and emotional intelligence are allocated for further research. Based on the theory of creative deviance by C. Mainemelis, we proposed complex model of creativity and deviance. The model combines such parameters as creative potential, characteristics of the performers, purpose, conditions and ways to achieve the goal, the result. The model takes into consideration the modality of the objectives, methods and results of the creative process, and the target of harm. The specifics of the model is that it can be used for analysis and study of antisocial creativity of individuals and groups. Within the model there are 4 kinds of creativity. We defined them "deviant creativity", "anti-social/asocial creativity", "negative creativity" and "creative deviance".
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2. Atadjikova, Yu. A., & Enikolopov, S. N. (2016). Problems of psychopathy concept in the modern domestic and foreign psychology. Psikhologicheskaya Nauka i Obrazovanie [Psychological Science and Education http://psyedu.ru], 8(1), 114-127. https://doi.org/10.17759/psyedu.2016080111 (in Russian)
3. Baer, J. (2010). Is creativity domain specific? In J. C. Kaufmann & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of creativity(pp. 321-341). New York: Cambridge University Press.
4. Barbot, B., Besançon, M., & Lubart, T. (2016). The generality-specificity of creativity: Exploring the structure of creative potential with EPoC. Learning and Individual Differences, 52(1), 178-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2016.06.005
5. Caroff, X., & Lubart, T. (2012). Multidimensional approach to detecting creative potential in managers. Creativity Research Journal, 24(1), 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2012.652927
6. Chavez-Eakle, R. A., Lara, M. C., & Cruz-Fuentes, C. (2006). Personality: A possible bridge between creativity and psychopathology? Creativity Research Journal, 18, 27-38.
7. Cleverley, K., Szatmari, P., Vaillancourt, T., Boyle, M., & Lipman, E. (2012). Developmental trajectories of physical and indirect aggression from late childhood to adolescence: Sex differences and outcomes in emerging adulthood. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51, 1037-1051.
8. Corazza, G. E. (2016). Potential originality and effectiveness: the dynamic definition of creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 28(3), 258-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2016.1195627
9. Cropley, A. J., & Cropley, D. H. (2011). Creativity and lawbreaking. Creativity Research Journal, 23(4), 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2011.621817
10. Dubov, I. G, & Petrovsky, V. A. (1987). Perestroika lichnostnyh struktur uchashchihsya pri personalizatsii lichnosti pedagoga [Reorganization of students’ personality structures with personalization of teacher’s personality]. In A. V. Petrovsky (Ed.), Psikhologiya razvivayushcheisya lichnosti [Psychology of developing personality]. (pp. 173-191). Moscow: Prosveshhenie. (in Russian)
11. Enikolopov, S. N. (2010). Aktual’nye problemy issledovaniya agressivnogo povedeniya [Live issues of aggressive behavior study]. Prikladnaya Yuridicheskaya Psikhologiya, 2, 37-47. (in Russian)
12. Enikolopov, S. N., Kuznetsova, Iu. M., & Chudova, N.V. (2014). Agressiya v obydennoi zhizni [Agression in everyday life]. Moscow: ROSSPEN. (in Russian)
13. Enikolopov, S. N., & Meshkova, N. V. (2008). Psikhologicheskie aspekty “prestuplenii nenavisti” [Psychological issues of hate crimes]. Kriminologiya: Vchera, Segodnya, Zavtra, 2(15), 64-74. (in Russian)
14. Enikolopov, S. N., & Meshkova, N. V. (2010). Prejudicialness in the context of personality characteristics. Psikhologicheskii Zhurnal, 31(4), 35-46. (in Russian)
15. Gino, F., & Wiltermuth, S. (2014). Evil genius? How dishonesty can lead to greater creativity. Psychological Science, 25(4), 973-981.
16. Hao, N., Tang, M., Yang, J., Wang, Q., & Runco, M. A. (2016). A new tool to measure malevolent creativity: The malevolent creativity behavior scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 682. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00682
17. Harris, D. J., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2015). Fast and furious: The influence of implicit aggression, premeditation, and provoking situations on malevolent creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9(1), 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038499
18. Harris, D. J., Reiter-Palmon, R., Kaufman, J. C. (2013). The effect of emotional intelligence and task type on malevolent creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7, 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032139
19. Hennessey, B. A., & Amabile, T. M. (2010). Creativity. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 569-598. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100416
20. Hester, K. S., Robledo, I. C., & Barrett, J. D. (2012). Causal analysis to enhance creative problem-solving: performance and effects on mental models. Creativity Research Journal, 24(2-3), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2012.677249
21. Julmi, C., & Scherm, E. (2015). The domain-specificity of creativity: Insights from new phenomenology. Creativity Research Journal, 27(2), 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2015.1030310
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23. Law, D. M., Shapka, J. D., Domene, J. F., & Gagne, M. H. (2012). Are cyberbullies really bullies? An investigation of reactive and proactive online aggression. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 664-672.
24. Mainemelis, C. (2010). Stealing fire: Creative deviance in the evolution of new ideas. Academy of Management Review, 35, 558-578.
25. Mayer, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2011). Suspicious spirits, flexible minds: When distrust enhances creativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(6), 1262-1277.
26. Meshkova, N. V. (2015). Modern foreign research in creativity: The social psychological aspect. Sotsial’naya Psikhologiya i Obshchestvo [Social psychology and society], 6(2), 8-21. (in Russian)
27. Meshkova, N. V., & Enikolopov, S. N. (2016a). The directions of creativity research in social interaction. Voprosy Psikhologii, 4, 118-128. (in Russian)
28. Meshkova, N. V., & Enikolopov, S. N. (2016b). On psychological research of antisocial creativity. Psikhologicheskie Issledovaniya, 9(50). Retrieved from http://psystudy.ru (in Russian)
29. Rhodes, M. (1961). An analysis of creativity. Phi Beta Kappen, 42, 305-310.
30. Routledge, C., Arndt, J., Vess, M., & Sheldon, K. (2008). The life and death of creativity: The effects of self versus other-oriented behavior on creative expression after mortality salience. Motivation and Emotion, 32, 331-338.
31. Routledge, S., & Jacob, J. J. (2012). The creative spark of death: The effects of mortality salience and personal need for structure on creativity. Motivation and Emotion, 36, 478-482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-011-9274-1
32. Walton, A. P., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2012). Creativity in its social context: The interplay of organizational norms, situational threat, and gender. Creativity Research Journal, 24(2-3), 208-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2012.677345
33. Westwood, R., & Low, D. R. (2003). The multicultural muse: Culture, creativity and innovation. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 3, 235-259. https://doi.org/10.1177/14705958030032006
34. Ye, S., Ngan, R. Y. L., & Hui, A. N. N. (2013). The state, not the trait, of nostalgia increases creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 25(3), 317-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2013.813797
Published
2018-11-06
How to Cite
МешковаН. В., & ЕниколоповС. Н. (2018). Creativity and Deviance: Communication and Interaction. Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 15(2), 279-290. https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8918-2018-2-279-290
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