The Nature of Creativity

The Nature of Creativity
Title The Nature of Creativity PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher CUP Archive
Pages 468
Release 1988-05-27
Genre Medical
ISBN 9780521338929

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This 1988 book provides sixteen chapters by acknowledged experts on the richness and diversity of psychological approaches to the study of creativity.

The Nature of Human Creativity

The Nature of Human Creativity
Title The Nature of Human Creativity PDF eBook
Author Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 417
Release 2018-04-19
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1107199816

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Brings together the research programs and findings of the twenty-four psychological scientists most cited in major textbooks on creativity.

Exploring the Nature of Creativity

Exploring the Nature of Creativity
Title Exploring the Nature of Creativity PDF eBook
Author Jon Michael Fox
Publisher
Pages 318
Release 2021-07-13
Genre
ISBN 9781524925659

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The Nature of Creative Development

The Nature of Creative Development
Title The Nature of Creative Development PDF eBook
Author Jonathan S. Feinstein
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 594
Release 2006-05-18
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0804784493

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The Nature of Creative Development presents a new understanding of the basis of creativity. Describing patterns of development seen in creative individuals, the author shows how creativity grows out of distinctive interests that often form years before one makes his/her main conributions. The book is filled with case studies that analyze creative developments across a wide range of fields. The individuals examined range from Virginia Woolf and Albert Einstein to Thomas Edison and Ray Kroc. The text also considers contemporary creatives interviewed by the author. Feinstein provides a useful framework for those engaged in creative work or in managing such individuals. This text will help the reader understand the nature of creativity, including the difficulties that one may encounter in working creatively and ways to overcome them.

The Dark Side of Creativity

The Dark Side of Creativity
Title The Dark Side of Creativity PDF eBook
Author David H. Cropley
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 409
Release 2010-06-30
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1139490079

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With few exceptions, scholarship on creativity has focused on its positive aspects while largely ignoring its dark side. This includes not only creativity deliberately aimed at hurting others, such as crime or terrorism, or at gaining unfair advantages, but also the accidental negative side effects of well-intentioned acts. This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant behavior, law enforcement, and counter-terrorism) to illustrate the nature of negative creativity, examine its variants, call attention to its dangers, and draw conclusions about how to prevent it or protect society from its effects.

The Nature of the Creative Process in Art

The Nature of the Creative Process in Art
Title The Nature of the Creative Process in Art PDF eBook
Author Jaroslav Havelka
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 241
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9401195129

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No single factor determined the growth of this book. It may have been that as a novice researcher in Behavioral Psychology I experienced growing discontent with the direction of intellectual activity in which the accent was on methodology and measurement, with a distinct atmosphere of dogmatism, insecurity and defensiveness. The anathema of tender-mindedness was attached to any study of mental manifes tations that avoided laboratory confirmation and statistical significance. Man in his uniqueness and unpredictable potentialities remained un explored. Yet outside the systematic vivisection of variables and their measurement men of originality and genius were studying the mind in its complex yet natural interaction of aspirations, values and creative capacities. It was almost too easy for me to turn to them for the re orientation of my psychological interest, and it was not difficult to find in Freud the most daring and penetrating representant of humanistic psychology. Furthermore, it could have been the fact that Freud's thoughts on creative processes appeared to me at once starkly original and yet incomplete and fragmentary, that led me to reconsider and expand on them. Freud's fascination with culture and creativity, although frank and serious, led him to a peculiar indecisiveness and overcautiousness which was radically different from the dramatic boldness of his thera peutic methods and the depth of his personality theories.

The Craft of Creativity

The Craft of Creativity
Title The Craft of Creativity PDF eBook
Author Matthew A. Cronin
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 370
Release 2018-04-17
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1503605515

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Creativity has long been thought of as a personal trait, a gift bestowed on some and unachievable by others. While we laud the products of creativity, the stories behind them are often abridged to the elusive "aha!" moment, the result of a momentary stroke of genius. In The Craft of Creativity Matthew A. Cronin and Jeffrey Loewenstein present a new way to understand how we innovate. They emphasize the importance of the journey and reveal the limitations of focusing on outcomes. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, their own research, and interviews with professionals and learners who employ creativity in the arts, engineering, business, and more, Cronin and Loewenstein argue that creativity is a cognitive process that hinges on changing one's perspective. It's a skill that anyone can hone, and one that benefits from thinking with others and over time. Breaking new ground in the discussion about how we innovate, this book provides strategies that everyone can use to be more creative.