Fu Hongyu, Zhang Zhonglu
Department of Psychology in School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 17;13:945848. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.945848. eCollection 2022.
The current study aims to investigate the influence of positive and negative moral emotions (gratitude and guilt) on malevolent creativity by exploring the potential mediation role of valence and prosocial behavior. Using autobiographical recall, three groups of participants developed gratitude, guilt, or neutral emotion, respectively, and then their prosocial behavior and malevolent creativity performance were compared. Results showed that compared with the neutral condition, individuals in the gratitude state experienced more positive emotions with less malevolent creative ideas, but the positive valence pathway had a positive effect on malevolent creativity, indicating the promoting effect of positive emotion on creativity. By contrast, individuals in the guilt state experienced more negative emotions, which result in less malevolent creativity. Gratitude and guilt promoted prosocial behaviors, which did not mediate the effect of gratitude or guilt on malevolent creativity. In short, the results indicate that the positive and negative moral emotions (gratitude and guilt) inhibit malevolent creativity, which is mediated by valence, instead of prosocial behavior.
本研究旨在通过探讨效价和亲社会行为的潜在中介作用，来调查积极和消极道德情绪（感恩和内疚）对恶意创造力的影响。通过自传式回忆，三组参与者分别产生了感恩、内疚或中性情绪，然后比较了他们的亲社会行为和恶意创造力表现。结果表明，与中性条件相比，处于感恩状态的个体体验到更多积极情绪，恶意创意想法更少，但积极效价途径对恶意创造力有积极影响，表明积极情绪对创造力有促进作用。相比之下，处于内疚状态的个体体验到更多消极情绪，这导致恶意创造力较低。感恩和内疚促进了亲社会行为，但这并未介导感恩或内疚对恶意创造力的影响。简而言之，结果表明，积极和消极道德情绪（感恩和内疚）会抑制恶意创造力，其通过效价而非亲社会行为起中介作用。
