Dishonesty involves breaking the social principle or rule that people should tell the truth. Creative people use divergent thinking which requires them to break some “rules” to construct new associations between previously unassociated elements.

So it seems like both creativity and dishonesty involve rule breaking, so how are dishonesty and creativity linked to each other? Are dishonest people more creative, or are creative people more dishonest? And why is that? Let’s find out.