Creative People Tend Not Honest

News Health Articles - Creative People Tend Not Honest. Creative people tend to think 'outside the box', the grace of flexibility of mind that it can also be applied to things that touch of ethics. Unfortunately, according to recent research, creative people are more likely to be dishonest.

In a series of experiments published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers tested five groups each consisting of about 100 people. In each group, the researchers gave tests to determine the level of creative thinking and intelligence of the participants. Then, the researchers gave participants the tasks that are designed so that participants can cheat easily.



The participants were given general knowledge quiz contains questions like "How far kangaroo leap?" and "What is the capital of Italy?". Participants were told they would receive 10 cents for each correct answer. Researchers then asked the test participants to copy their answers are circled on the sheet of answers. The researcher explained that he accidentally copied the answer key so that the correct answer on the answer sheet looks a little problem.

The participants were given an explanation that any fraud will not be detected when they were copying the answers. But in reality, every answer paper has a unique code that can identify each participant. The researchers found that people who score high on tests of creativity is more likely to cheat when filling the answer sheet.

In the second experiment, participants were shown pictures of diagonal lines with dots on both sides and asked to determine which side has more points. In half of the 200 trials, it is almost impossible to tell which side has more points.

But the participants were told that they would pay 10 times as much to say that the right side has more points. People mednapat high creativity scores were more likely to choose the right side.

"The dilemma is often put people to weigh two conflicting things: the desire to maximize self-interest and desire to maintain a positive view of yourself," said the researcher, Francesca Gino, a business professor from Harvard University seeprti Healthland reported by Time, Wednesday (30/11 / 2011)

According to the researchers, dishonesty and innovation are the two themes of the most widely written about in the popular media. But until recently, the relationship between creativity and dishonest behavior has not been studied empirically. These findings suggest that people are creative or working in an environment that supports creative thinking may be most at risk when faced with ethical dilemmas.

"Our research has shown that individuals tend to resolve the tension through rationalization: behave dishonestly to profit from his ethical behavior but not honest enough to maintain a positive self-concept as an honest man," said Professor Dan Ariely of Duke University who participated assist research.

As indicated above both experiments, dishonesty made by creative people often look dim. If you can not really tell which side has more points, choosing the right side is not blatant cheating, right?