Malevolent Creativity and the Dark Tetrad – (Plenty of) Null Findings for Idea Generation Tasks

Past research has strongly emphasized the role of dark personality, particularly, the dark triad/tetrad in malevolent creativity. However, reported associations largely stem from self-report measures (e.g., the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale: MCBS), which has received criticism. For this reason, in two-independent studies, this paper scrutinizes the relevance of the dark triad/tetrad for performance in a malevolent creativity test (MCT). Associations were tested for total malevolent creativity, and followed up for originality, malevolence, and fluency of ideas. In study 1 (n = 307), neit