Research is currently witnessing more investigations into malevolent creativity—creativity that is used to intentionally harm others. Inspired by previous methods to measure malevolent creativity, in the present study, we introduce a real-world behavioral task designed to capture individuals’ capacity for using creativity for the purpose of attaining malevolent goals in response to everyday, provocative situations. In a sample of 105 students, we found malevolent creativity positively correlated with fluency in conventional creative ideation, as well as with self-reported typical malevolent creativity behavior in daily life. Moreover, performance on the malevolent creativity task showed positive correlations with the maladaptive personality trait of antagonism (PID-5) as well as individuals’ state anger at the beginning of the experiment. Further, our multiple regression analysis revealed that conventional creative ideation, antagonistic personality, and state anger all explained unique, non-overlapping variance in the capacity for implementing malevolent creativity. As a whole, these findings suggest that different cognitive and affective factors, along with specific personality traits may each contribute to the expression of malevolent creativity in distinct ways. Future investigations striving to further decode the destructive potential of individuals toward others may benefit from this validated behavioral measurement approach to malevolent creativity.

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创造性的、对抗性的和愤怒的？通过现实世界的创意生成任务探索恶意创造力的根源

研究目前正在见证更多关于恶意创造力的调查 - 用于故意伤害他人的创造力。受先前衡量恶意创造力的方法的启发，在本研究中，我们引入了一个真实世界的行为任务，旨在捕捉个人利用创造力来实现恶意目标的能力，以应对日常、挑衅性的情况。在 105 名学生的样本中，我们发现恶意创造力与传统创意构思的流畅性以及自我报告的日常生活中典型的恶意创造力行为呈正相关。此外，恶意创造力任务的表现与对抗性（PID-5）的适应不良人格特征以及实验开始时个体的状态愤怒呈正相关。更远，我们的多元回归分析表明，传统的创造性观念、对抗性人格和国家愤怒都可以解释实施恶意创造性能力的独特的、非重叠的差异。总的来说，这些发现表明，不同的认知和情感因素，以及特定的人格特征，可能各自以不同的方式促成恶意创造力的表达。努力进一步解码个人对他人的破坏潜力的未来调查可能会受益于这种经过验证的针对恶意创造力的行为测量方法。这些研究结果表明，不同的认知和情感因素，以及特定的人格特征，都可能以不同的方式促进恶意创造力的表达。努力进一步解码个人对他人的破坏潜力的未来调查可能会受益于这种经过验证的针对恶意创造力的行为测量方法。这些研究结果表明，不同的认知和情感因素，以及特定的人格特征，都可能以不同的方式促进恶意创造力的表达。努力进一步解码个人对他人的破坏潜力的未来调查可能会受益于这种经过验证的针对恶意创造力的行为测量方法。