Creativity and the labor of love / Teresa M. Amabile -- The trouble with "creativity" / John Baer -- Do we choose our scholarly paths or do they choose us? My reflections on exploring the nature of creativity in educational settings / Ronald A. Beghetto -- Bringing creativity down to earth : a long labor lost? / Arthur Cropley -- In search of the creative personality / Gregory J. Feist -- From fascination to research : progress and problems in creativity research / Adrian Furnham -- Creativity : the view from big C and the introduction of tiny c / Howard Gardner and Emily Weinstein -- I never intended to become a research psychologist / Beth A. Hennessey -- What creativity can be, and what creativity can do / James C. Kaufman -- Creativity across the seven Cs / Todd Lubart -- Creative thinking in the real world : processing in context / Michael D. Mumford, Robert Martin, Samantha Elliott, and Tristan McIntosh -- It all makes sense now that I think about it : a quarter-century of studying creativity / Jonathan A. Plucker -- Creative cognition at the individual and team levels : what happens before and after idea generation / Roni Reiter-Palmon -- The malleability of creativity : a career in helping students discover and nurture their creativity / Joseph S. Renzulli -- Everyday creativity : challenges for self and world : six questions / Ruth Richards and Terri Goslin-Jones -- Authentic creativity : mechanisms, definitions, and empirical efforts / Mark A. Runco -- Pretend play and creativity : two templates for the future / Sandra W. Russ -- An interdisciplinary study of group creativity / R. Keith Sawyer -- Creativity is undefinable, controllable, and everywhere / Paul J. Silvia -- Genius, creativity, and leadership : a half-century journey through science, history, mathematics, and psychology / Dean Keith Simonton -- The triangle of creativity / Robert J. Sternberg -- Creativity as a continuum / Thomas B. Ward -- Reflections on a personal journey studying the psychology of creativity / Robert W. Weisberg -- Afterword : the big questions in the field of creativity : now and tomorrow / Robert J. Sternberg and James C. Kaufman.
Summary:
"This book provides an overview of the approaches of leading scholars to understanding the nature of creativity, its measurement, its investigation, its development, and its importance to society. The authors are the 24 psychological scientists who are most frequently cited in the four major textbooks on creativity, and they can thus be considered among the most eminent living scholars in the field. Each author discusses how they define creativity, the kinds of questions they have addressed, theories they have proposed, and a description of their research and the most interesting empirical results it has produced. The chapters represent a wide range of substantive and methodological emphases, including psychometric, cognitive, expertise-based, developmental, neuropsychological, cultural, systems, and group-difference approaches. The Nature of Human Creativity brings together an incredible diversity of viewpoints, helping students and researchers to see the points of consensus as well as the differences in contemporary perspectives"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.