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The dark side of creativity /

"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 ef...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cropley, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 394 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780511776731
051177673X
051177415X
9780511774157
9780511761225
0511761228