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•Creative scams generation engaged the right frontopolar cortex.•Creativity and morality regions involved the generation of creative scams.•Right frontopolar cortex less coupled with right precentral ...gyrus in harmful scams.•Efficient neural coupling might be crucial for generating high-creativity scams.
Deception is a complex social behavior that manifests in various forms, including scams. To successfully deceive victims, liars have to continually devise novel scams. This ability to create novel scams represents one kind of malevolent creativity, referred to as lying. This study aimed to explore different neural substrates involved in the generation of high and low creative scams. A total of 40 participants were required to design several creative scams, and their cortical activity was recorded by functional near-infrared spectroscopy. The results revealed that the right frontopolar cortex (FPC) was significantly active in scam generation. This region associated with theory of mind may be a key region for creating novel and complex scams. Moreover, creativity-related regions were positively involved in creative scams, while morality-related areas showed negative involvement. This suggests that individuals might attempt to use malevolent creativity while simultaneously minimizing the influence of moral considerations. The right FPC exhibited increased coupling with the right precentral gyrus during the design of high-harmfulness scams, suggesting a diminished control over immoral thoughts in the generation of harmful scams. Additionally, the perception of the victim’s emotions (related to right pre-motor cortex) might diminish the quality of highly original scams. Furthermore, an efficient and cohesive neural coupling state appears to be a key factor in generating high-creativity scams. These findings suggest that the right FPC was crucial in scam creation, highlighting a neural basis for balancing malevolent creativity against moral considerations in high-creativity deception.
Everyday Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review Ilha Villanova, Ana Luisa; Pina e Cunha, Miguel
Journal of creative behavior/The Journal of creative behavior,
September 2021, 2021-09-00, Volume:
55, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
We systematically review the concept and main characteristics of everyday creativity. First, we highlight the fact that a comprehensive definition of everyday creativity is still missing. The ...evidence reveals that the lack of a single approach for assessing everyday creative outcomes has led to an ambiguous understanding of this concept. Therefore, we propose a complementary perspective to define everyday creativity moving toward a broader comprehension of the construct. Second, we identify and analyze the main proprieties of everyday creativity in order to clearly distinguish it from big‐c creativity, genius kind of creativity; thereby offering a more complete explanation of the concept. Last, we outline pathways for future research, emphasizing the potential of everyday creativity studies to intersect between multiple fields.
Editor's Note Gilbert, Nora
Studies in the novel,
12/2017, Volume:
49, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Under her creative and thoughtful direction, the journal entered into an exciting new partnership with Johns Hopkins University Press, increased and vastly improved its online presence, was given a ...design overhaul and new look, updated and expanded its editorial board, and was brought into the twenty-first century in terms of its operations and submissions practices. On a personal note, I am extremely grateful for all the guidance and support Stephanie has given me over the years as I have progressed from the journal’s book review editor to associate editor to my new role as editor-in-chief.
This study explores how and when ethical leadership predicts three forms of team-level creativity, namely team creativity, average of member creativity, and dispersion of member creativity. The ...results, based on 230 members of 44 knowledge work teams from Chinese organizations, showed that ethical leadership was positively related to team creativity and average of member creativity but was negatively related to dispersion of member creativity. Consistent with the predictions of uncertainty reduction theory, psychological safety climate mediated the relationship between ethical leadership and the three forms of team-level creativity. Furthermore, supervisor support for creativity positively moderated the effect of ethical leadership on psychological safety climate and the indirect effects of ethical leadership on the three forms of team-level creativity through psychological safety climate. The analysis offers significant theoretical and practical implications on ethical leadership and creativity in organizations.
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