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The Best Is the Enemy of the Good: The Paradoxical Impact of Narcissism on Creativity in Leader-Follower Dynamics 最好的是好的敌人：自恋对领导者-追随者动态中创造力的矛盾影响

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70057

Xueling Wang, Evelyn, Qingjin Wang, Tian Lan, Huang Chen, Zhengrui Li, Qian Cui

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A Playful Climate and the Multilevel Scientific Creativity of Chinese College Student Innovation Teams: A Synthetic Review and an Integrative Theoretical Framework 游戏氛围与中国大学生创新团队多层次科学创造力：综合评价与整合理论框架

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-17 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70055

Hui Zhao, Ying Huang, Bangdan Liu, Mengjiao Han

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Cruel Creativity Delight in Malevolence: Development and Testing of the Malevolent Sadistic Creativity Behavior Tendencies Scale 恶意中的残忍创造喜悦：恶意虐待狂创造行为倾向量表的编制与测试

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-17 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70049

Yan Li, Zhe Gong, Pei Xie

{"title":"Cruel Creativity Delight in Malevolence: Development and Testing of the Malevolent Sadistic Creativity Behavior Tendencies Scale","authors":"Yan Li, Zhe Gong, Pei Xie","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study developed and validated the Malevolent Sadistic Creativity Behavior Tendencies Scale (MSCBTS), a tool designed to assess the prevalence of malevolent sadistic creativity behavior tendencies in individuals. The scale was administered online, yielding 1197 valid responses. To ensure robust data analysis, the sample was randomly divided into three segments: 25%, 37.5%, and 37.5% of the total sample. The first segment was used for exploratory factor analysis (EFA), which refined the scale to 11 items distributed across two dimensions: Direct Malevolent Sadistic Creativity Behavior Tendencies (6 items) and Vicarious Malevolent Sadistic Creativity Behavior Tendencies (5 items). The subsequent segments were used for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA1 and CFA2), which tested the scale's stability and consistency. Both CFA analyses demonstrated an excellent model fit. Additionally, reliability testing indicated strong internal consistency, with Cronbach's <i>α</i> coefficient and split-half reliability exceeding 0.80 for both the full scale and the two subscales. The MSCBTS also showed significant positive correlations with the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Tendencies Scale, the Chinese version of the Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies Scale, and the Dirty Dozen, further confirming its structural validity. In conclusion, the MSCBTS is a reliable and effective instrument for researching malevolent sadistic creativity tendencies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144861891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Research on the Influence Mechanism of Supervisors' Developmental Feedback on the Deviant Innovation of Science and Technology Employees: Dual Perspectives Based on Cognition and Emotion 主管发展性反馈对科技员工越轨创新的影响机制研究：基于认知和情感的双重视角

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70056

Ying-Lin Qin, Zhong Lin, Jing Sang, Xiang-Nan Yang

{"title":"Research on the Influence Mechanism of Supervisors' Developmental Feedback on the Deviant Innovation of Science and Technology Employees: Dual Perspectives Based on Cognition and Emotion","authors":"Ying-Lin Qin, Zhong Lin, Jing Sang, Xiang-Nan Yang","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As a kind of innovation that can bring breakthrough technologies or products, deviant innovation is regarded as an important force to promote scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and how to effectively drive technological employees to conduct deviant innovative behaviors has become a hot issue for managers. Supervisor developmental feedback, an emerging feedback form to realize employees' potential, has attracted the attention of practitioners and academics, but the influence mechanism of supervisor developmental feedback on technological employees' deviant innovation has not been clarified. Based on Pygmalion's theory, signaling theory, role theory, and broaden-and-build theory, we construct a cross-level influence model of supervisors' developmental feedback on deviant innovation among technological employees to better identify how supervisors' developmental feedback affects deviant innovation and to investigate its mechanism and boundary conditions. After the empirical analysis of paired data from 291 supervisors and subordinates, we found thatSupervisor developmental feedback significantly and positively affects employee deviant innovation. Role clarity and positive emotions partially mediate the relationship between supervisor developmental feedback and employee deviant innovation. Job crafting positively moderates the relationship between role clarity, positive emotions, and employee deviant innovation. Job crafting positively moderates the mediating role of role clarity and positive emotions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144833187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Work Orientation's Impact on Layperson Ratings of Creativity, Intelligence, Conscientiousness, and Hiring Likelihood 工作取向对外行人创造力、智力、责任心和雇佣可能性评分的影响

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70050

Mei Zheng, Kirill G. Miroshnik, James C. Kaufman

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Fear of Losing Power and Malevolent Creativity in Organizational Leaders: The Moderating Role of Power as Responsibility 组织领导者对失去权力的恐惧与恶意创造力：权力作为责任的调节作用

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70048

Kyriaki Fousiani, Sylvia Y. Xu, Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan

{"title":"Fear of Losing Power and Malevolent Creativity in Organizational Leaders: The Moderating Role of Power as Responsibility","authors":"Kyriaki Fousiani, Sylvia Y. Xu, Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Leader's fear of power loss may motivate novel antisocial behavior toward employees. In this study, we hypothesized a positive relationship between leader's fear of power loss and leader's engagement in malevolent creativity toward employees (i.e., creativity used for harming employees). We also hypothesized that this relationship is moderated by how leaders' construe power, either as an opportunity or as a responsibility. Study 1, a time-lagged field study, measured fear of power loss and power construal at T1, and malevolent creativity behavior at T2. In Study 2, a time-lagged field experiment measured power construal at T1, manipulated fear of power loss at T2, and assessed leaders' malevolent creativity potential using a performance-based malevolent creativity task. Study 2 further tested the mediating role of leader's anger in the hypothesized relationships. Results largely supported our hypotheses: They highlighted the moderating role of power construed as responsibility in the relationship between fear of power loss and malevolent creativity (Study 1), and the mediating role of leaders' anger (Study 2). Power construed as an opportunity did not moderate the effect of fear of power loss. This research advances our understanding of leadership dynamics and their impact on organizational outcomes from the perspective of dark creativity.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144681600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Enhancing Team Creativity Through Paradoxical Frames: Exploring the Role of Conflict and Integrative Complexity 透过矛盾框架提升团队创造力：探讨冲突与整合复杂性的作用

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70044

David A. Gomez Celis, Shyhnan Liou, Ingrid P. Hernandez Sibo

{"title":"Enhancing Team Creativity Through Paradoxical Frames: Exploring the Role of Conflict and Integrative Complexity","authors":"David A. Gomez Celis, Shyhnan Liou, Ingrid P. Hernandez Sibo","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using multilevel structural equation modeling (ML-SEM), this study examines how paradoxical frames enhance team creativity through the mediating roles of sense of conflict and integrative complexity. Although paradoxical frames are known to foster cognitive flexibility at the individual level, their impact on team creativity remains underexplored. We conducted a two-week design-thinking exercise with 235 undergraduate students (59 teams) assigned to high or low paradoxical frame conditions. Results indicate that paradoxical frames influence team creativity indirectly through their effects on sense of conflict and integrative complexity. Teams exposed to high paradoxical frames reported greater cognitive conflict, promoting deeper engagement with diverse perspectives. Additionally, paradoxical frames increased integrative complexity, enabling individuals to synthesize opposing viewpoints into creative solutions. Results confirmed a full mediation structure, whereby the effect of paradoxical framing on team creativity operated entirely through these two mediators. These findings extend paradox theory by demonstrating how paradoxical frames transform cognitive tensions into creative outputs at the team level. By identifying sense of conflict and integrative complexity as mediators, we contribute to research on paradox cognition in collaborative settings. Practically, these results provide insights for organizations aiming to leverage cognitive tensions to foster innovation in teams.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perceived Support Offered by Virtual and Real Environments for Creative Work 虚拟和真实环境为创造性工作提供的感知支持

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70032

Daniel Sundquist, Maxence Mercier, Samira Bourgeois-Bougrine, Todd Lubart

{"title":"Perceived Support Offered by Virtual and Real Environments for Creative Work","authors":"Daniel Sundquist, Maxence Mercier, Samira Bourgeois-Bougrine, Todd Lubart","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Environmental characteristics that have been empirically shown to improve creative outcomes in organizations include furniture and greenery. Virtual environments (VEs) are emerging as new work environments, but their potential to promote creativity has yet to be studied in detail. This work aims to explore which aspects in the holistic perception of VEs are considered beneficial for creative work, as well as examining whether real environments (REs) and VEs are perceived as influencing creativity in a similar way. Two online studies, involving a total of 380 participants, were conducted. In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 101), 26 screenshots representing a wide sample of freely available VEs were rated by participants in an online survey. In Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 279), the stimuli also included similar REs. The stimuli were pretested to identify commonly perceived aspects differentiating the holistic perception of the environments. Results partially supported the hypothesis that REs and VEs may influence creativity in a similar way. There were significant differences between the characteristics of the preferred environments for individual and group settings, but greenery emerged as being consistently perceived to benefit creative work. The findings can guide future design of VEs as well as REs for supporting creativity.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144624756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A ‘Sweet Spot’ for Creative Ideation: Non-Linear Associations Between Semantic Distance and Creativity 创造性思维的“甜蜜点”：语义距离与创造力之间的非线性关联

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70041

William Orwig, Simone A. Luchini, Roger E. Beaty, Daniel L. Schacter

{"title":"A ‘Sweet Spot’ for Creative Ideation: Non-Linear Associations Between Semantic Distance and Creativity","authors":"William Orwig, Simone A. Luchini, Roger E. Beaty, Daniel L. Schacter","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Creativity researchers have recently sought to standardize idea assessment via computational measures of semantic distance: the degree of conceptual dissimilarity between words. The relationship between semantic distance and creativity has traditionally been described using linear models, with the embedded assumption that as semantic distance increases, so does the creative quality of ideas. However, informal observations would suggest that distant associations may sometimes become too incoherent or nonsensical to be considered creative. Using generalized additive models (GAMs), we explored the non-linear nature of this relationship across three divergent thinking tasks: alternate uses, question asking, and metaphor generation. Our results revealed a consistent pattern: human ratings of creativity increased with semantic distance up to a certain threshold (between 0.9 and 1), after which point, additional semantic distance did not translate into more subjectively creative ideas. These findings provide a more nuanced understanding of the interplay between semantic distance and creativity than previously available, suggesting that the relationship is best characterized as curvilinear rather than linear. This work highlights a potential “sweet spot” for semantic distance in creative ideation and holds important implications for models of creativity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144367365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social Change Creativity: Proposing a New Domain for Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights 社会变革创造力：提出公平、社会正义和人权的新领域

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Journal of Creative Behavior Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.70042

Sarah R. Luria, James C. Kaufman

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