Generating, evaluating, endorsing, and implementing malevolent creativity: a malevolent idea journey.

Front Psychol · 2025 · PMC12712856 · PMID 41426411

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Still, in our study, general criminality showed a trend level positive correlation with total malevolent creativity of revenge ideas ( r = 0. 18, p = 0 .072), suggesting that malevolent creativity tests may capture a certain albeit very small aspect of real-life behavior after all (see Supplementary part D ).

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