The Dark Side of Creativity by David H. Cropley (PDF)

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With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects.

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⭐The collection of chapters touches on a few important points regarding the topic. It is a general read that discusses creativity as a tool rather than it being a purely good or bad force. A key point is differentiating between creativity resulting in unintentional harm and creativity used specifically to cause harm.

⭐I bought this book expecting to hear how creativity not only enlivens the people who have and exercise it, but also can drag them into obsession and anti-socialism. I thought wrong.This book pursues the thesis that creative people can create products that are both constructive and destructive, such as penicillin and nuclear weapons. Which is not a surprise nor particularly compelling as the unifying theme for a book.Perhaps specialists in some social science discipline would value a variety of chapters about this obvious and subjective thesis, but I can’t recommend it.

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