Dark, grey, or bright creativity? (Re)investigating the link between creativity and dishonesty

The question of whether and, if so, how creativity and unethical behavior such as dishonesty are related to each other has been addressed in multiple studies, with mixed results overall. The aim of this Registered Report is to shed further light on this issue. We first present a meta-analysis on the relation between creativity and dishonesty comprising the samples from a pre-registered multi-lab study (on a different topic), which found no relation between the constructs in question (k = 19, N = 2,154, rp = .02). Next, we examined the relation between creativity and dishonesty in a study (N = 1,152), in which we addressed several limitations of previous research. Specifically, we examined relations between comprehensively assessed creativity and dishonesty using subjective and objective indicators for both constructs. We found mixed results concerning the relation between creativity and dishonesty. In the majority of the confirmatory statistical tests, subjective creativity was positively related, whereas objective creativity was negatively related to dishonesty in the mind game. However, in exploratory analyses, we found that neither subjective nor objective creativity was relatetd to dishonesty in the second dishonesty measure, the sender-receiver game

Registered Report: Does cooperation framing increase bribery engagement of prosocial individuals?

Cooperation—although typically connoted with prosociality—plays a crucial role in facilitating bribery. Herein, we hypothesize that emphasizing the cooperative aspect of bribery increases bribery engagement, and that this is the case especially for prosocial individuals—i.e., those who typically resist bribes and who thus should have bribery-prone professional roles, such as public officials. We suggest a well-powered study (N = 5,700) testing whether cooperation (vs. neutral and bribery, respectively) framing increases bribery in a bribery game, especially among people with higher levels of the prosocial trait of Honesty-Humility. Supporting our hypotheses, we present a Pilot Study showing that cooperation (vs. bribery) framing increased the probability of offering and accepting bribes by 113% and 81%, respectively (N = 756), and that cooperation (vs. bribery) framing increased the probability of offering and accepting bribes among participants with higher (rather than lower) levels of Honesty-Humility