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Brilliant and Benevolent: The Optimism of Teresa Amabile’s Legacy for Creativity in Organizations

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This chapter drills down on a less known paper published by Teresa— “Brilliant but Cruel”—a paper that showed that those who gave negative reviews were perceived to be more intelligent than those who gave positive reviews. He proposes and provides initial evidence to support a fascinating idea: Rather than being critical, being optimistic and benevolent may actually contribute to more accurate evaluations of creative ideas.

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  1. Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, USA

    Justin M. Berg

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA

    Roni Reiter-Palmon

  2. School of Management, University College London, London, UK

    Colin M. Fisher

  3. School of Business, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    Jennifer S. Mueller

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Berg, J.M. (2020). Brilliant and Benevolent: The Optimism of Teresa Amabile’s Legacy for Creativity in Organizations. In: Reiter-Palmon, R., Fisher, C.M., Mueller, J.S. (eds) Creativity at Work. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Innovation in Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61311-2_1

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