Recent research findings have challenged the idea that creativity is domain- general. D omain Specificity of Creativity brings together the research information on domain specificity in creativity -- ...both the research that supports it and answers to research arguments that might seem to challenge it. The implications for domain specificity affect how we move forward with theories of creativity, testing for creativity, and teaching for creativity. The book outlines what these changes are and how creativity research and applications of that research will change in light of these new findings. * Summarizes research regarding domain specificity in creativity * Outlines implications of these findings for creativity theory, testing, and teaching * Identifies unanswered questions and new research opportunities
With constant references to Cloninger, Cosman and mainly Gray for the description of a model (AS) with anxiety-as-introverted-neuroticism and sociability-asextraverted- neuroticism; with recurrent ...recourse to Rusu, Pamfil, Cosman and mainly Kant for the description of creativity-as-product; with many a reverence to Andreasen, Jamison and mainly Aristotle for the description of creativity-asprocess – we will stipulate that the connection between psychopathology (PP) and big-C creativity (CC), a “melting pot” from which we have extracted personality traits (PT) and then the genetic code (DNA), intelligence (IQ) and a certain zeitgeist (ZG), is quite organic, namely that big-C creativity (CC) feeds on subclinical hypomania (SCHM), formative originality (FO) and subliminal psychopathology (SLPP). In a rather more condensed formulation, CC (AS + DNA + IQ + ZG) is informed by SCHM and encoded by FO and SLPP. By entabulation: CC (AS + DNA + IQ + ZG) → SCHM → FO + SLPP. This book, hopefully part of a long-standing Artistic Personality series, is an overt illustration of the aforementioned thesis, with special reference to Ion Creangă and George Bacovia, two foremost Romanian representatives of prose (an 80% psychopathology in a sample of 110 writers) and poetry (93.75% psychopathology in a sample of 80 poets).
Because personal identity is one of the key elements constituting an individual, and perception of different type of identities is a key feature in identity work, we think that the research in the ...area of perception of artists, creators, managers, entrepreneurs, and leaders should bring important conclusions to the understanding of those identities. We ran a literature review and quantitative research among society representatives (n=160). The main findings of our research show that artists, creators, managers, entrepreneurs, and leaders are perceived differentially by society although we can find areas of similarities and important differences. The hypotheses were confirmed using chi-square test of independence dedicated to small samples which don’t have a normal distribution (p<0.001): H1. Majority of the society does not recognize differences between creativity and artistry; H2. Creativity and entrepreneurship have similar perceptions among society; H3. Leadership and organizing have similar perceptions among society. The results of this research can be used to compare the identity perceived by individuals and the perception of these identities by society.
The stages of the creative process--from "unlearning" to beginning again--seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others.
Workers in cultural industries often say that the best part of
their job is the opportunity for creativity. At the same time,
profit-minded managers at both traditional firms and digital
platforms ...exhort workers to "be creative." Even as cultural fields
hold out the prospect of meaningful employment, they are marked by
heightened economic precarity. What does it mean to be creative
under contemporary capitalism? And how does the ideology of
creativity explain workers' commitment to precarious jobs? Michael
L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as
a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a
multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of
creative work. He details how such workplaces feature engaging,
dynamic processes that enlist workers in organizational projects
and secure their affective investment in ideas of creativity and
innovation. Siciliano argues that performing creative labor entails
a profound ambivalence: workers experience excitement and aesthetic
engagement alongside precarity and alienation. Through close
comparative analysis, he presents a theory of creative labor that
accounts for the roles of embodiment, power, alienation, and
technology in the contemporary workplace. Combining vivid
ethnographic detail and keen sociological insight, Creative
Control explains why "cool" jobs help us understand how
workers can participate in their own exploitation.
Creativity Across Domains Kaufman, James C; Baer, John
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Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative ...thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts, sciences, and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains what is known about the cognitive processes, ways of conceptualizing and solving problems, personality and motivational attributes, guiding metaphors, and work habits or styles that best characterize creative people within the domain he or she has investigated.
In addition, this book features:
*an examination of how creativity is similar and different in diverse domains;
*chapters written by an expert on creativity in the domain about which he or she is writing;
*a chapter on creativity in psychology which examines patterns of performance leading to creative eminence in different areas of psychology; and
*a final chapter proposing a new theory of creativity--the Amusement Park Theoretical Model.
This book appeals to creativity researchers and students of creativity; cognitive, education, social, and developmental psychologists; and educated laypeople interested in exploring their own creativity.
Contents: J.C. Kaufman, J. Baer, Introduction: How People Think, Work, and Act Creatively in Diverse Domains. J. Piirto, The Creative Process in Poets. S.K. Perry, Flow and the Art of Fiction. R.K. Sawyer, Acting. E. Zimmerman, Should Creativity Be a Visual Arts Orphan? J.I. Morris, Creativity and Dance: A Call for Balance. M. Leman, Musical Creativity Research. G.J. Feist, Domain-Specific Creativity in the Physical Sciences. D.K. Simonton, Creativity in Psychology: On Becoming and Being a Great Psychologist. D. Saunders, P. Thagard, Creativity in Computer Science. D. Cropley, A. Cropley, Engineering Creativity: A Systems Concept of Functional Creativity. R.M. Milgram, N.L. Livne, Creativity as a General and a Domain-Specific Ability: The Domain of Mathematics as an Exemplar. M.D. Mumford, J.M. Strange, G.M. Scott, B.P. Gaddis, Creative Problem-Solving Skills in Leadership: Direction, Actions, and Reactions. J.R. Averill, Emotions as Mediators and as Products of Creative Activity. C.M. Ford, D.M. Sullivan, Selective Retention Processes That Create Tensions Between Novelty and Value in Business Domains. M. Basadur, Management: Synchronizing Different Kinds of Creativity. D. Ambrose, Creativity in Teaching: Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions. R.J. Sternberg, The Domain Generality Versus Specificity Debate: How Should It Be Posed? J.A. Plucker, The (Relatively) Generalist View of Creativity. J. Baer, J.C. Kaufman, Whence Creativity? Overlapping and Dual-Aspect Skills and Traits. J.C. Kaufman, J. Baer, The Amusement Park Theory of Creativity.
Historical records show that culture can increase exponentially in time, e.g., in number of poems, musical works, scientific discoveries. We model how human capacities for creativity and cultural ...transmission may make such an increase possible, suggesting that: (1) creativity played a major role at the origin of human culture and for its accumulation throughout history, because cultural transmission cannot, on its own, generate exponentially increasing amounts of culture; (2) exponential increase in amount of culture can only occur if creativity is positively influenced by culture. The evolution of cultural transmission is often considered the main genetic bottleneck for the origin of culture, because natural selection cannot favor cultural transmission without any culture to transmit. Our models suggest that an increase in individual creativity may have been the first step toward human culture, because in a population of creative individuals there may be enough non-genetic information to favor the evolution of cultural transmission.
The aim of the article. The article deals with personnel creativeness management approaches, as necessary condition to provide enterprise sustainable development. The necessity to conduct complex ...analysis of enterprise innovative development potential and their innovative activity level as key elements of the successful investigation concerning innovative products is described. The author identifies workers’ intellectual and creative resources and their component; demonstrates necessity to use various directions and tools to diagnose personnel creativeness in the system concerning enterprise innovative sustainable development. The results of the analysis. The scientific article analyzes modern state of the problem concerning personnel creativeness effective management with purpose to provide sustainable innovative development at the enterprise. One observes the views of native and foreign scientists concerning mentioned problems and existing ways to solve them. There is provided that personnel creativeness management has to be laid in plane of comprehensive analysis conduct and estimation of the innovative development potential and enterprise innovative activity. With this purpose there is necessity to use proper theoretic and methodic managerial approaches. The special attention is paid to solve the problem to estimate enterprise innovative development providing and its potential with financial resources. During study there was identified workers’ intellectual and creative resources components. The carried out analysis demonstrates, that worker’s creative skills depend on each of the intellectual and creative resources components development, which are presented in the article. Conclusions and directions of further researches. The sustainable innovative development at the enterprise, based on the personnel creativeness management use should foresee to use suggested directions and tools of the personnel creativeness diagnostics. It will give opportunity to managers to orient in the existence and efficiency to use creative skills by workers while generating creative ideas, making creative managerial and engineering-technical decisions, creating innovative products with purpose of their further commercialization. The further scientific research is to be found in the interdisciplinary plane, which provides to search and to develop more effective models, methods and tools to manage the personnel creativeness, with purpose to provide efficient innovative development of the native enterprises in various branches.
Creativity is like an iceberg - the resulting new idea, or novel solution is only 10% of the effort. The other 90% is the complex interplay of thinking skills and strategies, personal and ...motivational properties that activate these skills and strategies, and the social and organizational factors of the environment that influence the creative process. Creativity in Engineering focuses on the Process, Person, Product, and Place to understand when and why creativity happens in the engineering environment and how it can be further encouraged. Special Features: * Applies findings in creativity research to the engineering arena * Defines engineering creativity and differentiates it from innovation * Discusses personality and motivational factors that impact creativity * Clarifies the role of creativity in the design process * Details the impact of thinking skills and strategies in creativity * Identifies the role the organization and environment plays in encouraging creativity * Discusses the 4P's of Creativity: Person, Product, Process, and Place * Provides tactics and tools that will help users foster creativity in engineering environments * Identifies how creativity results in innovative new solutions to problems * Applies creativity research and knowledge to the engineering space
Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship, the authors' research, and original interviews with professionals and learners, The Craft of Creativity presents a new account of creativity. Focusing on ...process as opposed to outcomes, it offers guidelines for improving our ability to navigate the creative process efficiently and effectively.
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