Creativity and morality are key attributes that stakeholders demand of organizations. Accordingly, higher education institutions and professional training programs also seek to cultivate these attributes in future leaders. However, research has hitherto shown that, under certain conditions, creativity may conflict with morality. This complicates the development of creative individuals who are also moral. We examined the complex relationship between creativity and moral reasoning with data collected from a group of undergraduate students. By considering the cognitive processes behind creativity and moral reasoning, we propose perspective taking as a moderating factor. Specifically, we found that while creative individuals might not necessarily adopt a lower level of moral reasoning, there was a more nuanced moderating relationship among creativity, perspective taking, and moral reasoning. That is, individuals who were weak in perspective taking tended to adopt a lower level of moral reasoning if they were also creative. Perspective taking was also directly and positively associated with moral reasoning. We explore the implications of our findings for future research and curriculum/program design.

创造力和道德是利益相关者对组织要求的关键属性。因此，高等教育机构和专业培训项目也寻求在未来的领导者中培养这些品质。然而，迄今为止的研究表明，在某些条件下，创造力可能与道德发生冲突。这使同样有道德的创造性个体的发展变得复杂。我们使用从一组本科生收集的数据研究了创造力和道德推理之间的复杂关系。通过考虑创造力和道德推理背后的认知过程，我们建议将视角作为调节因素。具体来说，我们发现虽然有创造力的个体可能不一定采用较低水平的道德推理，但创造力之间存在更细微的调节关系，观点采择和道德推理。也就是说，如果他们也有创造力，那么在观点选择方面较弱的人往往会采用较低水平的道德推理。观点采择也与道德推理直接和正相关。我们探索我们的发现对未来研究和课程/项目设计的影响。