TY - BOOK N2 - "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"-- AB - "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"-- T1 - The dark side of creativity / DA - 2010. CY - New York : AU - Cropley, David. CN - BF408 CN - BF408 PB - Cambridge University Press, PP - New York : PY - 2010. ID - 347883 KW - Creative ability. KW - Good and evil. KW - Criminal intent. SN - 9780521139601 (pbk.) SN - 0521139600 (pbk.) SN - 9780521191715 SN - 0521191718 TI - The dark side of creativity / LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2010014625-b.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2010014625-d.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2010014625-t.html LK - http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/39601/cover/9780521139601.jpg UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2010014625-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2010014625-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2010014625-t.html UR - http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/39601/cover/9780521139601.jpg ER -