TY - JOUR
T1 - Creativity and ethics
T2 - The relationship of creative and ethical problem-solving
AU - Mumford, Michael D.
AU - Waples, Ethan P.
AU - Antes, Alison L.
AU - Brown, Ryan P.
AU - Connelly, Shane
AU - Murphy, Stephen T.
AU - Devenport, Lynn D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Jason Hill, Ginamarie Scott-Ligon, Whitney Helton-Fauth, and Blaine Gaddis for their contributions to this article. The data collection was supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources, General Clinical Center Research Grant (M01RR-14467). This work was conducted under the auspices of a grant from the National Institutes of Health and the Office of Research Integrity (5R01-NS049535-02), Michael D. Mumford, Principal Investigator.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - Students of creativity have long been interested in the relationship between creativity and deviant behaviors such as criminality, mental disease, and unethical behavior. In this study we wished to examine the relationship between creative thinking skills and ethical decision-making among scientists. Accordingly, 258 doctoral students in the health, biological, and social sciences were asked to complete a measure of creative processing skills (e.g., problem definition, conceptual combination, idea generation) and a measure of ethical decision-making examining four domains: data management, study conduct, professional practices, and business practices. It was found that ethical decision-making in all four of these areas was related to creative problem-solving processes with late-cycle processes (e.g., idea generation and solution monitoring) proving particularly important. The implications of these findings for understanding the relationship between creative and deviant thought are discussed.
AB - Students of creativity have long been interested in the relationship between creativity and deviant behaviors such as criminality, mental disease, and unethical behavior. In this study we wished to examine the relationship between creative thinking skills and ethical decision-making among scientists. Accordingly, 258 doctoral students in the health, biological, and social sciences were asked to complete a measure of creative processing skills (e.g., problem definition, conceptual combination, idea generation) and a measure of ethical decision-making examining four domains: data management, study conduct, professional practices, and business practices. It was found that ethical decision-making in all four of these areas was related to creative problem-solving processes with late-cycle processes (e.g., idea generation and solution monitoring) proving particularly important. The implications of these findings for understanding the relationship between creative and deviant thought are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/10400410903579619
DO - 10.1080/10400410903579619
M3 - Article
C2 - 21057603
AN - SCOPUS:77951044703
SN - 1040-0419
VL - 22
SP - 74
EP - 89
JO - Creativity Research Journal
JF - Creativity Research Journal
IS - 1
ER -