We proposed several factors that may influence both positive and negative creativity. Those factors included personality/individual-difference constructs such as dispositional emotional and goal tendencies, interpersonal factors such as supervisory styles that can promote or reduce perceptions of autonomy and support, social-situational factors such as the presence or absence of intergroup conflict, structural mechanisms such as the presence or absence of procedures for venting negative emotions in more “mundane” (i.e., not negatively creative) ways, and cultural factors such as norms and values. Our ideas about negative creativity, however, are based largely on extrapolations of studies that mostly were actually focused on other issues. There is little direct research on negative creativity, and clearly, much more is needed. In summary, we hope that we have made a reasonable beginning to drawing attention to and developing some specific ideas about an aspect of creativity that seems to have been too much ignored. Much more research and theoretical work are needed for fuller scientific understanding of the positive/negative dimensions of creativity, as well as to, in the words of former Xerox Corporation CEO Paul Allaire, “capture the creative and innovative spirit” for positive individual and social ends.