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Similarities and Distinctions between Cortical Neural Substrates That Underlie Generation of Malevolent Creative Ideas

Creativity can be driven by negative intentions, and this is called malevolent creativity (MC). It is a type of creativity that serves antisocial purposes and deliberately leads to harmful or immoral results. A possible classification indicates that there are three kinds of MC in daily life: hurting...

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Autores principales: Qiao, Xinuo, Lu, Kelong, Yun, Qiang, Hao, Ning
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Neuroscience 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37696664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0127-23.2023
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author Qiao, Xinuo
Lu, Kelong
Yun, Qiang
Hao, Ning
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Lu, Kelong
Yun, Qiang
Hao, Ning
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description Creativity can be driven by negative intentions, and this is called malevolent creativity (MC). It is a type of creativity that serves antisocial purposes and deliberately leads to harmful or immoral results. A possible classification indicates that there are three kinds of MC in daily life: hurting people, lying, and playing tricks. This study aimed to explore similar and distinct neural substrates underlying these different kinds of MC idea generation. The participants were asked to perform different MC tasks, and their neural responses were recorded using a functional near-infrared spectroscopy device. The findings revealed that most regions within the prefrontal and temporal lobes [e.g., the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC), and right angular gyrus] were involved in the three MC tasks. However, the right frontopolar cortex (rFPC) was more activated and less coupled with the rDLPFC and right precuneus during the lying task than during the other tasks. Thus, rFPC may play an important role in constructing novel lies. In the lying task, individuals were more selfish and less compassionate. In the playing tricks and hurting people tasks, there was less neural coupling between the rDLPFC and the left inferior frontal gyrus/right inferior parietal lobule than that in the lying task. This may imply that selfish motivation is released when individuals try to ignore victims’ distress or generate aggressive tricks in hurting people or playing tricks tasks. These findings indicate that the three kinds of MC idea generation involve common cortical regions related to creative idea generation and moral judgment, whereas differences in cortical responses exist because of their unique features.
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spelling pubmed-105128852023-09-22 Similarities and Distinctions between Cortical Neural Substrates That Underlie Generation of Malevolent Creative Ideas Qiao, Xinuo Lu, Kelong Yun, Qiang Hao, Ning eNeuro Research Article: New Research Creativity can be driven by negative intentions, and this is called malevolent creativity (MC). It is a type of creativity that serves antisocial purposes and deliberately leads to harmful or immoral results. A possible classification indicates that there are three kinds of MC in daily life: hurting people, lying, and playing tricks. This study aimed to explore similar and distinct neural substrates underlying these different kinds of MC idea generation. The participants were asked to perform different MC tasks, and their neural responses were recorded using a functional near-infrared spectroscopy device. The findings revealed that most regions within the prefrontal and temporal lobes [e.g., the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC), and right angular gyrus] were involved in the three MC tasks. However, the right frontopolar cortex (rFPC) was more activated and less coupled with the rDLPFC and right precuneus during the lying task than during the other tasks. Thus, rFPC may play an important role in constructing novel lies. In the lying task, individuals were more selfish and less compassionate. In the playing tricks and hurting people tasks, there was less neural coupling between the rDLPFC and the left inferior frontal gyrus/right inferior parietal lobule than that in the lying task. This may imply that selfish motivation is released when individuals try to ignore victims’ distress or generate aggressive tricks in hurting people or playing tricks tasks. These findings indicate that the three kinds of MC idea generation involve common cortical regions related to creative idea generation and moral judgment, whereas differences in cortical responses exist because of their unique features. Society for Neuroscience 2023-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10512885/ /pubmed/37696664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0127-23.2023 Text en Copyright © 2023 Qiao et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
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Lu, Kelong
Yun, Qiang
Hao, Ning
Similarities and Distinctions between Cortical Neural Substrates That Underlie Generation of Malevolent Creative Ideas
title Similarities and Distinctions between Cortical Neural Substrates That Underlie Generation of Malevolent Creative Ideas
title_full Similarities and Distinctions between Cortical Neural Substrates That Underlie Generation of Malevolent Creative Ideas
title_fullStr Similarities and Distinctions between Cortical Neural Substrates That Underlie Generation of Malevolent Creative Ideas
title_full_unstemmed Similarities and Distinctions between Cortical Neural Substrates That Underlie Generation of Malevolent Creative Ideas
title_short Similarities and Distinctions between Cortical Neural Substrates That Underlie Generation of Malevolent Creative Ideas
title_sort similarities and distinctions between cortical neural substrates that underlie generation of malevolent creative ideas
topic Research Article: New Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37696664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0127-23.2023
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