Handbook of Creativity,9780521572859

Handbook of Creativity

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780521572859
ISBN10: 0521572851
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-11-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The goal of this handbook is to provide the most comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative single-volume review available in the field of creativity. The book contains twenty-two chapters covering a wide range of issues and topics in the field of creativity, all written by distinguished leaders in the field. The volume is divided into six parts. The introduction sets out the major themes and reviews the history of thinking about creativity. Subsequent parts deal with methods, origins, self and environment, special topics and conclusions. All educated readers with an interest in creative thinking will find this volume to be accessible and engrossing.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii(2)
Preface ix
PART I INTRODUCTION 3(32)
1 The Concept of Creativity: Prospects and Paradigms
3(13)
Robert J. Sternberg
Todd I. Lubart
2 A History of Research on Creativity
16(19)
Robert S. Albert
Mark A. Runco
PART II METHODS FOR STUDYING CREATIVITY 35(102)
3 Psychometric Approaches to the Study of Human Creativity
35(27)
Jonathan A. Plucker
Joseph S. Renzulli
4 Experimental Studies of Creativity
62(31)
Mark A. Runco
Shawn Okuda Sakamoto
5 The Case Study Method and Evolving Systems Approach for Understanding Unique Creative People at Work
93(23)
Howard E. Gruber
Doris B. Wallace
6 Creativity from a Historiometric Perspective
116(21)
Dean Keith Simonton
PART III ORIGINS OF CREATIVITY 137(52)
7 Biological Bases of Creativity
137(16)
Colin Martindale
8 Evolving Creative Minds: Stories and Mechanisms
153(16)
Charles J. Lumsden
9 The Development of Creativity
169(20)
David Henry Feldman
PART IV CREATIVITY, THE SELF, AND THE ENVIRONMENT 189(150)
10 Creative Cognition
189(24)
Thomas B. Ward
Steven M. Smith
Ronald A. Finke
11 From Case Studies to Robust Generalizations: An Approach to the Study of Creativity
213(13)
Emma Policastro
Howard Gardner
12 Creativity and Knowledge: A Challenge to Theories
226(25)
Robert W. Weisberg
13 Creativity and Intelligence
251(22)
Robert J. Sternberg
Linda A. O'Hara
14 The Influence of Personality on Artistic and Scientific Creativity
273(24)
Gregory J. Feist
15 Motivation and Creativity
297(16)
Mary Ann Collins
Teresa M. Amabile
16 Implications of a Systems Perspective for the Study of Creativity
313(26)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
PART V SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVITY 339(110)
17 Creativity Across Cultures
339(12)
Todd I. Lubart
18 Computer Models of Creativity
351(22)
Margaret A. Boden
19 Organizational Creativity
373(19)
Wendy M. Williams
Lana T. Yang
20 Enhancing Creativity
392(39)
Raymond S. Nickerson
21 Prodigies and Creativity
431(18)
Michael J. A. Howe
PART VI CONCLUSION 449(12)
22 Fifty Years of Creativity Research
449(12)
Richard E. Mayer
Author Index 461(18)
Subject Index 479

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