Creativity. Dishonesty. A quantitative research on the relationship between Creative Personality and Dishonest Behaviour.

In the last decades, academics cast a shadow over the belief that creativity is always beneficial and intrinsically good, suggesting that creativity increases dishonesty (Gino and Ariely, 2012). Within three quantitative studies, this thesis attempts to analyse what is relationship between creative personality and dishonest behaviour and what are the other factors involved. By testing hypotheses based on literature, we found that a creative personality has a positive and significant effect on dishonest behaviour that is moderated by an honest personality (study 1). The second study (2.1) supports that creative personality is a significant predictor of dishonest behaviour and it also indicates that their connection is fully mediated by small everyday creativity. Finally, the last study (2.2) was unable to catch any significant relationship between creativity and dishonest behaviour, in contrast with the previous findings, suggesting that the connection is not doubtless. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.