Handbook of Creativity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sternberg, Robert J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The goal of the Handbook of Creativity is to provide the most comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative single-volume review available in the field of creativity. To this end, the book contains 22 chapters covering a wide range of issues and topics in the field of creativity, all written by distinguished leaders in the field. The chapters have been written to be accessible to all educated readers with an interest in creative thinking. Although the authors are leading behavioral scientists, people in all disciplines will find the coverage of creativity divided in the arts and sciences to be of interest. The volume is divided into six parts. Part I, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107263802
• Artikelnr.: 52989216

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. The concept of creativity: prospects and paradigms
Robert J. Sternberg and Todd Lubart; 2. A history of research on creativity
Robert S. Albert and Mark Runco; Part II. Methods for Studying Creativity:
3. Psychometric approaches to the study of human creativity Jonathan A.
Plucker and Joseph Renzulli; 4. Experimental studies of creativity Mark
Runco and Shawn Okuda Sakamoto; 5. The case study method and evolving
systems approach for understanding unique creative people at work Howard E.
Gruber and Doris Wallace; 6. Creativity from a historiometric perspective
Dean Keith Simonton; Part III. Origins of Creativity: 7. Biological bases
of creativity Colin Martindale; 8. Evolving creative minds: stories and
mechanisms Charles J. Lumsden; 9. The development of creativity David Henry
Feldman; Part IV. Creativity, the Self and Environment: 10. Creative
cognition Thomas B. Ward, Steven M. Smith and Ronald A. Finke; 11. From
case studies to robust generalizations: an approach to the study of
creativity Emma Policastro and Howard Gardner; 12. Creativity and
knowledge: a challenge to theories Robert W. Weisberg; 13. Creativity and
intelligence Robert W. Weisberg and Linda O'Hara; 14. The influence of
personality on artistic and scientific creativity Gregory J. Feist; 15.
Motivation and creativity Mary Ann Collins and Teresa Amabile; 16.
Implications of a systems perspective for the study of creativity Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi; Part V. Special Topics in Creativity: 17. Creativity
across cultures Todd I. Lubart; 18. Computer models of creativity Margaret
A. Boden; 19. Organizational creativity Wendy M. Williams and Lana T. Yang;
20. Enhancing creativity Raymond S. Nickerson; 21. Prodigies and creativity
Michael J. A. Howe; Part VI. Conclusion: 22. Fifty years of creativity
research Richard E. Mayer.