Thank you to all who attended on 4th June!
Keep reading for information on our book of abstracts, keynote speaker, and the order of events!
Conference book
Keynote Speaker
Our brilliant keynote speaker was Dr Hansika Kapoor!
Dr Hansika Kapoor is a Research Author at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India. She holds a PhD from IIT, Bombay in the area of dark creativity aka how people get good ideas to do bad things. She is the recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2019-2020) and is an Affiliate at the University of Connecticut.
Keynote Address: A Spotlight on Dark Creativity
The implicit assumption that creativity is meant for good and benevolent deeds is currently being challenged. In this talk, I will outline my work on dark creativity, stylistically understood as how people get good ideas to do bad things. In general, features of the person (like moral flexibility) and situation (ill-defined instructions) interact within a certain zeitgeist to yield dark creative acts. Through the AMORAL model of dark creativity (Kapoor & Kaufman, 2022), I will describe the components of such acts at the individual, societal, and broader cultural levels, as well as their immediate and long term consequences. I will also illustrate the emergence of dark creativity across multiple domains (e.g., public policy, misinformation, artificial intelligence) to make a case for its future investigation in diverse settings.
For more about our Dr Kapoor, please see our Keynote Speaker page.
Creativity: The dark side and more
This year’s theme incorporates Dark Creativity, leading from our keynote address. This can include a wide variety of methods and topics, and we welcome abstract submissions from all creativity researchers/practitioners.
timetable
1300-1400: Keynote address by Dr Hansika Kapoor
1400-1500: Short talks
- Sarah Rezaei: Development and Behavioral Validation of the Dark Creativity Deception Battery (DCDB)
- Melissa McMullan: A Spotlight On Creativity: Narcissism and The Performing Arts
- Manuel Santos: Developing creative coaching practice through Action Research: Why and how context matters
- Edith Haim: Forma mentis networks predict creativity ratings of short texts via interpretable artificial intelligence in human and GPT-simulated raters
1500-1600: Parallel poster talks
UK Creativity Researchers 