Product Description: Written by one of the leading scholars in the field of creativity, the mission of this book is to provide instructors teaching courses in creativity with a textbook that provides both comprehensive content coverage and state-of-the-art pedagogy...read more

Product Description: Few topics are as important--or as intriguing--as creativity. It plays a huge role in virtually every field, from art to organisational science, from counselling to technology. It is related to both psychological and physical health, the effectiveness of problem solving, and innumerable everyday activities...read more

Product Description: This volume describes the theory supporting the use of divergent thinking tests. It also presents specific research findings. It describes what has been discovered about divergent thinking in the past 10 years. Unlike other volumes, this text focuses on divergent thinking rather than attempting to cover all of creativity assessment...read more

The Encyclopedia of Creativity is the sourcebook for individuals seeking specialized information about creativity and motivation. Subjects include theories of creativity, techniques for enhancing creativity, individuals who have made significant contributions to creativity, physiological aspects of creativity, and virtually any topic that touches upon the subject. Entries are placed in alphabetical order with cross-references to other topics and entries where appropriate. Each entry is written in simple easy-to-understand terms summarizing the most important aspects of creative research and writing relating to the specific topic. A bibliography in the back of each article suggests additional sources for more information. The text is visually enhanced throughout by illustrations and photographs.

The complex field of creativity has shifted away from the traditional humanistic, child-centred approach towards a more empirical approach. Both conceptually and methodologically, attention is now paid to the creative performances of adults and their achievements in a variety of settings. Theories of Creativity explores this new emphasis and the renewed interest in the field in an exciting collection of articles by leading authorities who represent major approaches to the study of creativity.

Academic essays consider the critical and creative thinking processes. (view table of contents)

Product Description: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The relationship between creativity and originality has long been studied in personality and psychometric research, but recently ties to deviance and variability have also been described. This special issue, along with Longitudinal Studies of Creativity, focuses on creativity, deviance, and related traits and criteria such as variability, avante garde efforts, and contrarian strategies...read more

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Product Description: The mention of "art" and "artists" in the title may make it sound like there is one obvious focus in this special issue; however, the breadth and variety of the articles will impress more readers than will its focus. Just as the range of topics covered is larger than what might be implied by the brief title, so do the articles themselves cover much more ground than is implied by the table of contents...read more

Product Description: The various chapters of this volume emphasize different periods of development. There is an argument for the creativity of children, another for adolescence, and another for adulthood. Continuities and discontinuities across the life span are described, as are numerous developmental issues, such as the role of knowledge and experience, and the relationships between creativity, play, and deviance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Throughout history, laypeople and scientists alike have tended to attribute creative behavior to dispositional rather than situational causes. The feature article of this special issue* applies established principles of causal attribution to the issues of how people explain creative behavior;* discusses how dispositional attributions of creative behavior affect the future production, evaluation, and attribution of original creations; and* suggests some practical applications of the proposed attributional approach...read more

Product Description: The authors of this volume attempt to cohere the field of creativity and affect in a scholarly fashion by categorizing and characterizing some of its major features, including environmental influences; underlying processes; specific affective states; the role of atypical or pathological personalities; unconscious processes; physiological components; proactive and reactive stimuli; intrinsic motivation; eminence versus everyday creativity; and testing of assessing the affective component of creativity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many individuals studying problem solving consider creativity a special type of problem solving. On the other hand, many individuals studying creativity view problem solving as a special type of creative performance. What is truly the role of creativity in problem solving? What is the role of problem solving in creativity? And how are problem solving and creativity related to problem finding? This book addresses these questions, and fills an obvious need for an overview of the research on problem finding...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The research presented in this volume suggests that divergent thinking is an important component of the creative process. Divergent thinking tests are probably the most commonly used measure of children's potential for creative thinking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)