TY - JOUR
T1 - Doing justice to creative justifications
T2 - Creativity, Honesty-Humility, and (un)ethical justifications
AU - Ścigała, Karolina Aleksandra
AU - Schild, Christoph
AU - Zettler, Ingo
N1 - Funding Information:
This investigation was funded by a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation (CF16-0444) and the Independent Research Fund Denmark (7024-00057B) to the last author.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Research on the relation between creativity and unethical behavior has provided inconclusive findings, thus far. Herein, we focus on a mechanism that has been suggested as underlying a positive relation between these constructs: an increased ability to generate unethical justifications (i.e., reasons for behaving unethically) of those with high levels of creativity. Specifically, we test if creativity is more strongly related to the generation of unethical than ethical justifications. In a vignette experiment (N = 907, N = 20,719 rated answers), we find that creativity is equally related to the quality and quantity of both ethical and unethical justifications. Additionally, Honesty-Humility from the HEXACO Model of Personality is positively related to the quality of ethical, and negatively related to the quality and quantity of unethical justifications.
AB - Research on the relation between creativity and unethical behavior has provided inconclusive findings, thus far. Herein, we focus on a mechanism that has been suggested as underlying a positive relation between these constructs: an increased ability to generate unethical justifications (i.e., reasons for behaving unethically) of those with high levels of creativity. Specifically, we test if creativity is more strongly related to the generation of unethical than ethical justifications. In a vignette experiment (N = 907, N = 20,719 rated answers), we find that creativity is equally related to the quality and quantity of both ethical and unethical justifications. Additionally, Honesty-Humility from the HEXACO Model of Personality is positively related to the quality of ethical, and negatively related to the quality and quantity of unethical justifications.
KW - Creativity
KW - Ethical justifications
KW - HEXACO
KW - Honesty-Humility
KW - Unethical justifications
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104033
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104033
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85092937215
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 89
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
M1 - 104033
ER -